[ZODB-Dev] Completing ZEO authentication support

[Shane Hathaway]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I think the onle proposed changes that would be in this new 3.9 are your 

Scratch the proposal--I suggested it when I didn't realize Zope 2.11b1 
was already out.

> invalidation patch and my authentication patch, is that correct? 
> Considering the interest there appears to be in RelStorage that may make 
> a lot of sense - currently we need to monkey-patch ZODB to use 
> RelStorage and I'ld rather not have to do that.

Minor correction: the patch is a normal patch rather than a monkey 
patch.  I don't think a monkey patch is appropriate for this.

> Now I'ld love to have a release from current trunk as well to be able to 
> have an official release with blob support, but I understand that that 
> may not be realistic short term.

What might be more realistic is to get Zope releases back on a regular 
schedule, so that changes don't have to wait so long.  But that's a 
topic for a different mailing list.

Shane