[Zope] DateTime mess

[Jürgen Herrmann]

[ Lennart Regebro wrote:]
> On 11/29/05, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
>> We could deprecate DateTime now to warn people about that. But then
>> their product would only either work with Zope <2.12 or with Zope >2.12
>> (depending on whether it still expects the DateTime API or the
>> datetime.datetime API); it would not with both versions. That's a harsh
>> upgrade plan and it would probably take ages before people would adopt
>> Zope 2.12.
>
> I agree, official deprecation and warnings should only happen when we
> have a real backwards compatibility and transition-path. Which would
> include what you call a "frankendatetime". :-)
>
> Which, as I understand it, is what Jürgen Herrman wanted to create...

correct that is ;)

regards, juergen herrmann
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