[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope 2.10] ZPT going Unicode

[Jim Fulton]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
>> ToDo: in-place conversion of persistent ZPT instance through 
>> setstate() or so...
> 
> 
> Could we avoid doing things in __setstate__ please? It imposes a runtime 
> cost that doesn't disappear.
> 
> I'd rather have a one-time update method that trawls the database, like 
> is done for Python Scripts recompiling for instance. Or I can call it 
> myself in my upgrade procedures on the exact objects I know will need 
> updates.

Perhaps we can use the generations framework.

Jim

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