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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> Yeah, schema migration is an ugly problem.

It's not really any worse than any other sort of complex data
structure change, is it? If your persistent data lived in a pickle
file, it would likely be as bad or worse.

> ... suckitude ...

Nice word. Let's use it more so my polly app will see it as a common
word and maybe offer it to me in a potential XKCD 936 password. :-)

suckitude suckitude suckitude suckitude suckitude suckitude suckitude

:-)

Skip