[Zope-dev] Re: brain.getObject and traversal

[Chris Withers]

Hi Tres,

> We really need to follow a deprecation-style model here:  the risk of
> breaking major third party components is pretty high.

Agreed. I see you started working on this, thanks!

Since this is a bug, and it looks like it's going to be fixed with a 
config option, would anyone mind if I ported this code to the 2.7 branch 
with the option set to do whatever 2.7.5 does?

> The CHANGELOG should highlight the change, and include the zope.conf
> snippet required to restore the old behavior.  We could add a
> deprecation warning (if that entry is activated), that the old-style
> option would be removed in 2.10.

Sounds good to me.

cheers,

Chris

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