Error updating universe list

Norbert Hartl norbert at hartl.name
Thu Jul 26 13:36:25 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 14:05 +0100, Keith Hodges wrote:
> May I suggest a mailing list specifically for universe content 
> discussion to support the opening of the "editorial policy" so as to 
> adopt a "social model", rather than an "anarchic model". The server 
> could post to the mailinglist when it receives updates and users could 
> post with feedback.
> 
> The posts could be flagged with the universe to which it applies in 
> order to support appropriate filtering.
> 
> I have discovered that Universes do not appear to support Monticello 
> dependencies. This means that packages such as 'Magma Server' and 
> variants are not likely to work out of the box.
> 
> TimeZoneDatabase is not (as yet) compatible with 3.9 nor 3.10 since It 
> overrides DateAndTime fromSeconds: to return a DateAndTime instance. 
> Users of the subclass TimeStamp fromSeconds: are expecting a TimeStamp 
> instance.
> 
> 
Btw. how is the universe XML file being updated? Is the XML file updated
as a whole? Are there any concurrency problems?

thanks,

Norbert




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