[development] The dawn of DB locks

[Steven Peck]

On Nov 6, 2007 10:59 AM, Karoly Negyesi <karoly at negyesi.net> wrote:
> > > Note that the installer still checks for LOCK permissions in the
> > > database. Now that we see some contrib modules use it
>
> All of them do in error.
>
> > IMO the contrib module shouldn't depend on core to make sure that its
> > requirements are met.  However, it would be nice for core to provide
> > methods to check the requirement exists.
>
> Patch?
>

My point is, used in error or not, this is
A) A significant change
B) Something to celebrate
C) Something to wake people up a bit to the upcoming changes and won't
hurt to make them aware of.