[Zope3-dev] No, backward compatibility

[Jim Fulton]

Roger Ineichen wrote:
> Hi together
> 
> One of the last changes isn't backward compatible.
> 
> If somebody has local persistent utilities registred.
> There is a problem with the new 'component' reater then 
> 'componentPath' registration.
> 
> My utility was not directly borken, but I wasn't able to 
> add other utilities.
> 
> There was also no way to remove my utility, because of,
> "the remove process couldn't find the location of my old
> utility instance".
> 
> For me it's not urgent. I trashed the ZODB, but 
> I guess we have to support a migration path for
> old style utilitie instances in the ZODB.

Backward incompatability was not intentional.

Please submit a collector entry.  If you have the broken database.
that would be helpful. In the future, if this happens, please
retain the broken database so it can be used to debug the backward
incompatibility.

Jim

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