[Grok-dev] dependencies missing needed for Grok 1.1 backwards compatibility

[Steve Schmechel]

Is there a reason that someone would have to quickly upgrade to 
Grok 1.1, and not have the time to fix the dependencies in their
own application?  If there is some sort of major security issue
discovered, it should probably be fixed in version 1.0 and 1.1 
anyway.

I think having this package available will just tempt people to 
be lazy and put off really updating their application.  Either
it just delays the inevitable, or the package would need to be
maintained indefinitely.

I am +1 on good upgrade notes (regardless of whether the 
"backwards compatibility" package is available or not).

Regards,
Steve

--- On Tue, 3/9/10, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:

> From: Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com>
> Subject: [Grok-dev] dependencies missing needed for Grok 1.1 backwards compatibility
> To: grok-dev at zope.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 10:12 AM
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade a project to use Grok 1.1. Some
> dependencies are 
> missing from Grok proper that are needed for backwards
> compatibility.
> 
> In the past we discussed a "backwards compatibility"
> package that would 
> have these dependencies on packages that used to be in Grok
> 1.0 but that 
> Grok 1.1 doesn't pull in anymore. Someone who is updating a
> Grok app to 
> Grok 1.1 could then also depend on this grokbackward
> package to pull in 
> the old dependencies. They could then work on removing
> these 
> dependencies step by step.
> 
> Do people think this is a good idea? The alternative would
> be to write 
> upgrade notes asking people to change their imports, but
> the drawback 
> would be that there's no way to get code working without
> changing imports.
> 
> The one I just ran into is zope.app.catalog, but I imagine
> there are 
> more. Could someone do a comparison between the packages
> pulled in by 
> Grok 1.0 and Grok 1.1rc1 and make a list?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn
> 
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