On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:53:28PM +0100, R J Ladyman wrote:
-> Dear All,
->
-> Having installed the above (yes, I'm finally moving to Qx2 from 1.0b1) I
-> notice that the Session2 SessionManager is missing a number of methods
-> present in the Qx SessionManager (e.g. the placeholders for abort_changes and
-> commit_changes plus all _key-related stuff). Was there any reason for not
-> inheriting from the original SessionManager and overriding the 'useless'
-> methods (other than lack of time, of course)?
->
-> Not a criticism, I'm just wondering: I tripped on this from trying to run the
-> altdemo with a persistant store - there was no 'values' method, but no error
-> reported either, other than " SessionManager instance has no attribute
-> 'items' " which took me a while to track down.
->
-> Regards, and thanks for a useful package.

Hi, RJ,

the session2 package is largely a redesign of the session persistence
mechanism.  abort_changes and commit_changes have no meaning in the
new design & would just have confused people.

If you're really interested, check out

        http://www.advogato.org/person/titus/diary.html?start=93

cheers,
--titus