Easy... Re: [Zope] update 2.3.3 to 2.4.0

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi,

--On Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2001 00:38 -0400 Shane Hathaway 
<shane@digicool.com> wrote:

> Ron Bickers wrote:
>> So, ZC (or anyone else knowledgeable of Zope guts), is my Data.fs dirty
>> from not going through an export/import process every time I upgrade, or
>> is my positive experience doing it this way because there's nothing
>> wrong with it?
>
> There's nothing wrong with doing that at all.  The format of Data.fs has
> not changed for a couple of years now.  In fact doing an export and an
> import is nearly equivalent to just copying Data.fs.

Nearly. Isn't it so the export/import uses only the latest version
of the objects? So it must by somewhat like packing and copying the
Data.fs. I however did successfully resolve problems with versions
during export/import.

> In fact, several times I've used a Data.fs created by a later version in
> an earlier version of Zope.  It really works. :-)

I assume Zope 2.4 does not mix it up with Unicode-strings?

Regards
Tino