Op 17-03-10 11:16, Nicholas Bower schreef:
I joined the list after this discussion:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2010-March/015607.html
and want to point out that even the most recent versions of Zope 2.x for
example still recommend Python 2.4.
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.11.4/Zope-2-11-4-released
Except that at the top of http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope you will see
that as of version 2.12 releases are made to the Python Package Index,
at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Zope2
To quote one of the changelog entries there: "Officially supporting
Python 2.6 only (with inofficial support for Python 2.5) but dropping
any support and responsibility for Python 2.4."
Note that the front of the www.zope.org now points to
http://zope2.zope.org/ as a better source of information for Zope 2.
In other words, there are probably alot of web apps out there (eg think
about sites on Plone CMS) potentially running Python 2.4. I run a
dedicated Python 2.4 just for Plone for example (the buildout of which
is based on virtualenv and setuptools anyway I guess).
Whether distutils2 would be used by these projects of course is another
matter. Just pointing out Python 2.4 is absolutely not unimportant.
Agreed, I am in the Plone business and daily use Plone 3, which needs
Zope 2.10, which needs Python 2.4. The upcoming Plone 4 (first beta
available) will use Zope 2.12, so will use Python 2.6, which is a good
thing.
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Maurits van Rees
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