[ZODB-Dev] Completing ZEO authentication support

[Shane Hathaway]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>>> I would like to get that fix in for Zope 2.11, which will use ZODB 
>>> 3.8. Are there any objections to changing this there as well? This is 
>>> a bit of a grey area between a bugfix and completing an unfinished 
>>> feature, and I'm do not know what the rules for ZODB development are.
>> I have a similar request: I'd like the invalidation polling patch 
>> (needed by RelStorage) to be included in Zope 2.11.  Is there some way 
>> that can be done?
>>
>> AFAIK, Jim is working on major ZODB changes for ZODB 3.9.  Could we move 
>> those major changes into ZODB 3.10 and create ZODB 3.9 with only modest 
>> feature enhancements, then use ZODB 3.9 with Zope 2.11?
> 
> Zope 2.11 needs a few changes to work with ZODB 3.9 as well: ZODB.Mount was 
> removed, which TemporaryFolder is still using.

Fortunately, the MountPoint class in ZODB.Mount is only a base class for 
persistent objects, rather than a standalone persistent object, so it 
should not be difficult to move Mount to a more appropriate package.

Shane