[ZODB-Dev] ZEO packing

[Guido van Rossum]

> > > The default has always been non-blocking AFAIK, so it should stay
> > > that.
> > 
> > Thats the default for ZEO 1, but not for any other storage. Its not
> > obvious to me whether it is better for the default behavior of ZEO 2
> > to be consistent with ZEO 1, or consistent with every other storage.
> 
> I've asked Jim to rule on this.

Jim, while not feeling strongly, said that it was surprising to people
that it was asynchronous, so I'll make the default synchronous.  You
can still specify wait=0 to let the pack() call return immediately.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)