4 Jun
2003
4 Jun
'03
5:11 a.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote IMO versions do nothing except complexify the code. I believe it's an official Zope Corp position to discourage them for new projects. Yet Jeremy Hylton seems to think that they are somehow useful and has carefully preserved them in ZODB 4 (== Zope 3). If it were up to me, they would have been gone, with a big helping of YAGNI!
Worse yet, they _seem_ like a neat/useful solution. But they're not - it's a path that leads to madness and despair. I'd prefer the approach of making you change some code in lib/python/ to enable them, with them disabled by default. -- Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.