[Zope-Coders] Upcoming releases

[Andreas Jung]

--On Samstag, 18. September 2004 10:49 Uhr -0400 Chris McDonough 
<chrism at plope.com> wrote:

> Has anyone been able to confirm or investigate the list of "2.8 issues"
> I last sent over to this list (or maybe it was zope-dev)?  FWIW, I
> suspect it would be a mistake to make any release without at least
> reviewing and acknowledging these.  They are repeated below.

Good point.

>
> - test that Zope 2.8 starts up and works properly with databases
>   created under Zope 2.7 and earlier.  Lots of problems in this
>   area the last time I checked.

Works for me with some large Plone sites. However there are
problems importing PersistentList and PersistentMapping
from the ZODB package.
>
> Also, FWIW, Tim is on vacation and ZODB in 2.8 is in an unknown state
> (it's not linked in any automated way to the ZODB 3.3 that Zope 3 is
> using, so someone needs to do that merge).  It is probably a year old or
> so, maybe.
>

Ok. Since there is no need to hurry with 2.8 we can decide to make
the a1 release when most annoying issues are resolved.

Andreas