[Zope] Are Versions evil?

[Mark Barratt]

Peter Sabaini wrote:
> Has anyone had trouble using Versions recently?
> 
> Should I advise against using Versions in the Zope Book?

I have had problems with a Version recently in 2.6.2: work in a version, 
accept the changes, delete the version - not the end of the story as 
Zope believed that one folder was still locked by the version and would 
not allow modification of material which had been in the version.

We have also had big problems with versions in the root.

In both cases we had to rely on our Zope guru (thanks, Chris!) to poke 
around until the problem cleared. I don't think Chris actually knew what 
he did to fix it - certainly restarts etc didn't help.

So a warning might be useful...

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