[Zope-dev] Re: DateTime mess

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 29 Nov 2005, at 16:46, Andreas Jung wrote:

> --On 29. November 2005 17:36:51 +0100 Lennart Regebro  
> <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A question that then pops up is: Do we want to force people to do a
>> migration to upgrade between say Zope 2.9 and Zope 2.10, just to
>> replace all the DateTime pickles? Especially since we still need to
>> provide API-compatibility?
>
> For people it might be more comfortable to have a on-the-fly  
> migration somehow under the hood...however this leads to ugly  
> migration code in the sources (Zope is full of such scary code).  
> Personally I prefer a dedicated
> migration step.

+1 on a dedicated migration step. Might even be a chance for some  
other cleanups.

jens