[Zope-Coders] test failures in DateTime

Stephan Richter srichter@cbu.edu
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:28:46 -0500


>I believe that backward compatibility is the real driver of this.
>
>I'd be happy to move to using mxDateTime if:
>
>   - We can be 100% backward compatible with people's current
>     expectations (without being just as buggy as a result)
>
>     or
>
>   - If we can't be 100% bw compatible, we could focus on a DateTime
>     replacement and migration tools for Zope 3. The new version of
>     DateTime for Zope 3 would then be more free to get rid of old
>     crufty APIs (but we'd be stuck with the current decrepit version
>     in the meantime).

Okay, that is fair enough. If we can't get full compatibility, when is Zope 
3 due? Any release plans online yet? :-)

Regards,
Stephan

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Stephan Richter
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