[albatross-users] New release?

[Tim Churches]

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 01:18, Matt Goodall wrote:
> The problem is classes you write yourself that are defined in the page
> module and whose instances are stored in the session.
> 
> The bottom line is that instances of a class **defined in a page
> module** cannot be pickled and so cannot be put in the session. This
> includes any TreeNode
> (http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/albatross/tag-treenode.html) classes.
> 
> The solution (if Dave and Andrew decide to go ahead with the change) is
> to move any page support classes into a proper package/module hierarchy,
> leaving _only_ the code immediately responsible for working with pages
> in the page module.
> 
> Hope that provides a better understanding of code that might be
> affected.

OK, thanks, much clearer. That's not so bad then (since most of our
Albatross code has been written by Dave, Andrew or Ben of Object-Craft -
it's only my hacks which will need to be refactored a bit. However, my 
comments about the importance of backwards compatibility still stand.
-- 

Tim C

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