[Zope-dev] Re: Converting from old-style BTreess

[Jim Fulton]

Chris McDonough wrote:
...

> Out of curiosity, could you explain why it matters in this context
> whether it's an extensionclass or not?  Is it because there might be a
> set of people using PersistentMapping objects for whom its important
> that they be able to use extenionclass semantics against them?  I'd just
> never thought of using __of__ or inheritedAttribute or any of the other
> EC-specific stuff on a PersistentMapping.

<shrug>  Who knows. I'd rather be safe.  It's not that hard.
In any case, we would have needed the fix to handle old pickles
correctly.

Jim

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