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

[Souheil CHELFOUH]

I tend to agree with Steve

2010/3/10 Steve Schmechel <steveschmechel at yahoo.com>:
> 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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