[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: Bug#158554: Separate ZODB package status?

[Igor Stroh]

martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Fabio Tranchitella <kobold at debian.org> [2005.08.10.2041 +0200]:
> 
>>Why do you think modularize zope packages using different ZoDB is a good
>>idea?
> 
> 
> Because of code duplication. For the same reason that we e.g. make
> Plone depend on CMF rather than just include the entire Plone
> tarball content in the package (and thus make Plone use its own CMF
> code).

The Products site for ZODB says:
"Zope 2.8 and current Zope 3 development are using ZODB 3.4. ZODB 3.4
cannot be used with Zope 2.7 or earlier."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yes, I know, zope2.7 will be gone some day, but you cannot guarantee that
future ZODB versions will work with zope2.8...

Cheers,
Igor