thrown off during a collection replace event, if the
reorder_on_append flag were set to True.  The fix ensures that the
ordering list only impacts the list that is explicitly associated
with the object.
fixes #3191

setslice of ``[0:0]`` correctly, which in particular could occur
when using ``insert(0, item)`` with the association proxy.  Due
to some quirk in Python collections, the issue was much more likely
with Python 3 rather than 2.  Also in 0.8.3, 0.7.11.
[ticket:2807]

before we do the pop() test.
- make clear()/pop() test unconditional

ideas in general:
  - pypy2.1 w/ sqlite3 is the first DBAPI we're seeing returning
    unicode in cursor.description without being py3k.  add a new on-connect
    check for this, if we get back a u"", just don't do description decoding,
    should be OK for now.
  - the set tests in test_collection were assuming the two sets would be ordered
    the same when it tested pop(), can't really assume that.
  - test_serializer gets worse and worse, pickle is just not really viable here,
    ding out pypy
  - pypy2.1b2 seems to allow cursor.lastrowid to work (or we changed something?)
  - pool._threadconns.current() is a weakref, it can be None
  - another one of those logging.handlers imports

- went through examples/ and cleaned out excess list() calls

method, which fires off each time the collection is associated
or de-associated with a mapped object - the decorator
was not tested or functional.  The decorator method
is now named :meth:`.collection.linker` though the name "link"
remains for backwards compatibility.  Courtesy Luca Wehrstedt.
[ticket:2653]

collections, mainly that the usage of the @collection decorators
will now honor the __mro__ of the given class, applying the
logic of the sub-most classes' version of a particular collection
method.   Previously, it wasn't predictable when subclassing
an existing instrumented class such as :class:`.MappedCollection`
whether or not custom methods would resolve correctly.
[ticket:2654]

- The undocumented (and hopefully unused) system of producing
custom collections using an ``__instrumentation__`` datastructure
associated with the collection has been removed, as this was a complex
and untested feature which was also essentially redundant versus the
decorator approach.   Other internal simplifcations to the
orm.collections module have been made as well.