On 11/29/05, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp@weitershausen.de> wrote:
We could deprecate DateTime now to warn people about that. But then their product would only either work with Zope <2.12 or with Zope >2.12 (depending on whether it still expects the DateTime API or the datetime.datetime API); it would not with both versions. That's a harsh upgrade plan and it would probably take ages before people would adopt Zope 2.12.
I agree, official deprecation and warnings should only happen when we have a real backwards compatibility and transition-path. Which would include what you call a "frankendatetime". :-) Which, as I understand it, is what Jürgen Herrman wanted to create... -- Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/ CPS Content Management http://www.cps-project.org/