[Zope3-dev] No, backward compatibility

[Roger Ineichen]

Jim Fulton wrote: 
> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 5:19 PM
> To: dev at projekt01.ch
> Cc: zope3-dev at zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope3-dev] No, backward compatibility
> 
> 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

Ok, I will do that the next time.

btw.
I hope I have the time to finish the pagelet skin over christmas ;-) 

Regards
Roger Ineichen

Projekt01 GmbH
www.projekt01.ch
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