Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Lennart Regebro wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 13:27, Wichert Akkerman wich...@wiggy.net wrote: But you can use a lot of the Zope Toolkit with Zope 2.10, which is an enormous benefit. If that was not possible a lot of the things people want to do with Plone would not be possible.

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 09:55, Wichert Akkerman wich...@wiggy.net wrote: No, I need to use some later versions of some packages than included in Zope 2.10 to be able to use things like z3c.form and dexterity. Well, mixing versions and using versions of packages that differ several years in

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-06 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Martin Aspeli wrote: I'd be happy with that kind of policy. Maybe you can help Sebastien Douche document the existing infrastructure in the zopetoolkit website. It just has to be a page with a few paragraphs so we won't keep *forgetting* that this exists and people can find out about

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-06 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Chris McDonough wrote: Were this some other project, I'd ask the Plone folks or some other group that cares about Zope packages under 2.4 to set up a buildbot that tested the ZTK under Python 2.4.  Then I'd ask the same folks to to pay attention to the buildbot output

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-06 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Aspeli wrote: Hanno Schlichting wrote: Personally I don't care if the ZTK doesn't officially support Python 2.4 anymore, as long as nobody will try to actively remove Python 2.4 support. For my part I'd be happy to take care of the BBB

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-06 Thread Martin Aspeli
Tres Seaver wrote: The burden of proof *is* the work you just signed up the preserve 2.4 group for: monitoring the packages they care about for things which break under 2.4, and proposing 2.4-compatible fixes. Sure. That's different to saying officially that ZTK does not support Python 2.4,

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Aspeli
Martijn Faassen wrote: Hey, Martijn Faassen wrote: In order to get to a conclusion: I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. I'd like to phrase the debate in those terms instead of the reverse, because

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55, Martin Aspeli optilude+li...@gmail.com wrote: We've had some more discussions about this and the Plone release schedule. The upshot is that if Zope 3/Toolkit drops Python 2.4 support, it will effectively render it inaccessible to Plone users for the next 12-18

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Lennart Regebro wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55, Martin Aspeli optilude+li...@gmail.com wrote: We've had some more discussions about this and the Plone release schedule. The upshot is that if Zope 3/Toolkit drops Python 2.4 support, it will effectively render it inaccessible

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Aspeli
Lennart Regebro wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55, Martin Aspeli optilude+li...@gmail.com wrote: We've had some more discussions about this and the Plone release schedule. The upshot is that if Zope 3/Toolkit drops Python 2.4 support, it will effectively render it inaccessible to Plone users

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Martin Aspeli wrote: Since I haven't seen such arguments besides the Plone 3.x related ones, I will amend the zope toolkit decisions about this. We've had some more discussions about this and the Plone release schedule. The upshot is that if Zope 3/Toolkit drops

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Martin Aspeli wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: In order to get to a conclusion: I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. I'd like to phrase the debate in those terms instead of the reverse,

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Wichert Akkerman wrote: [snip] But you can use a lot of the Zope Toolkit with Zope 2.10, which is an enormous benefit. No, you can't, as far as I can tell. You'd have to remove Zope 3 entirely from Zope 2.10, and Plone relies on Zope 3, so this sounds unfeasible. The burden of evidence is on

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Martijn Faassen wrote: Wichert Akkerman wrote: [snip] But you can use a lot of the Zope Toolkit with Zope 2.10, which is an enormous benefit. No, you can't, as far as I can tell. You'd have to remove Zope 3 entirely from Zope 2.10, and Plone relies on Zope 3, so this sounds unfeasible.

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Stephan Richter wrote: Plone is using z3c.form. We are currently in the process of releasing z3c.form 2.0, which has a massive amount of new features, which are very useful. As a z3c.form developer I want to stay compatible with the current Plone release, because (a) the code gets tested

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Aspeli
Martijn Faassen wrote: As I pointed out, it is effectively inaccessible for Plone users anyway, as Zope 3 is already installed. You *cannot* mix Zope Toolkit and Zope 3 libraries just like that and expect anything to work. Why not? We upgrade Zope 3.3 packages to 3.4+ all the time to access

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Stephan Richter wrote: [snip] I do think that we should care a lot about the Plone user base. Right now it is by far the largest sub-community we have. I care about the Plone user base, but would you really have said: okay, we should not move to Python 2.5 for Zope 3.5, because people

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Hanno Schlichting wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: Wichert Akkerman wrote: [snip] But you can use a lot of the Zope Toolkit with Zope 2.10, which is an enormous benefit. No, you can't, as far as I can tell. You'd have to remove Zope 3 entirely from Zope 2.10, and Plone relies on Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Ethan Jucovy
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Martin Aspeli optilude+li...@gmail.comoptilude%2bli...@gmail.com wrote: Lennart Regebro wrote: Can you expand on this argument, because I don't understand it. Zope 2.10 doesn't stop working because Zope 2.12 no longer supports Python 2.4. And you are not

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Martin Aspeli wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: As I pointed out, it is effectively inaccessible for Plone users anyway, as Zope 3 is already installed. You *cannot* mix Zope Toolkit and Zope 3 libraries just like that and expect anything to work. Why not? We upgrade Zope 3.3 packages to

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Martijn Faassen wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: In order to get to a conclusion: I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. I'd like to phrase the debate in those terms instead of the reverse, because ensuring

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martijn Faassen wrote: This is a component developed in the context of the Zope Toolkit (or at least post-Zope 3.4). It depends on zope.container, also new. We released a backwards compatible zope.app.container (not in the Toolkit) which relies on zope.container now for its

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Martijn Faassen wrote: What is the date that you would feel comfortable about giving up Python 2.5 compatibility in Zope Toolkit packages? I'm not leaving this thread without at least *some* decision about this. :) Oops, I meant of course giving up Python 2.4 compatibility. Giving up

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Martijn Faassen wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: What is the date that you would feel comfortable about giving up Python 2.5 compatibility in Zope Toolkit packages? I'm not leaving this thread without at least *some* decision about this. :) Oops, I meant of course giving up Python 2.4

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Hanno Schlichting wrote: [snip] Given those dates the most commonly used Plone version will be based on Python 2.4 up until end of next year by the looks of it. What about implementing the dropping of Python 2.4 compatibility in september, then? To give you guys a bit more time?

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Aspeli
Martijn Faassen wrote: So I see two responses for Plone developers: * they know that they need new versions of zope.app.container and zope.app.component too and require people to upgrade those too. This might work fairly well, but does require the upgrade of more than just a *few*

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Chris McDonough
On 5/5/09 11:16 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Hey, Hanno Schlichting wrote: [snip] Given those dates the most commonly used Plone version will be based on Python 2.4 up until end of next year by the looks of it. What about implementing the dropping of Python 2.4 compatibility in september,

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hermann Himmelbauer
Am Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 16:46:03 schrieb Martijn Faassen: Hey, Martijn Faassen wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: In order to get to a conclusion: I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. I'd like to phrase the

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Benji York
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Hermann Himmelbauer du...@qwer.tk wrote: Am Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 16:46:03 schrieb Martijn Faassen: Hey, Martijn Faassen wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: In order to get to a conclusion: I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Lennart Regebro wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55, Martin Aspeli optilude+li...@gmail.com wrote: We've had some more discussions about this and the Plone release schedule. The upshot is that if Zope 3/Toolkit

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hanno Schlichting wrote: Stephan Richter wrote: Plone is using z3c.form. We are currently in the process of releasing z3c.form 2.0, which has a massive amount of new features, which are very useful. As a z3c.form developer I want to stay

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Tres Seaver wrote: Hanno Schlichting wrote: As a side note, we just started the community discussion about moving at least to Zope 2.11 / 3.4 for Plone in a release by the end of this year. This should take away some of the burden with Zope 3.3, but will not change the Python 2.4 situation.

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hanno Schlichting wrote: Tres Seaver wrote: Hanno Schlichting wrote: As a side note, we just started the community discussion about moving at least to Zope 2.11 / 3.4 for Plone in a release by the end of this year. This should take away some of

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Tres Seaver wrote: Hanno Schlichting wrote: Tres Seaver wrote: Zope 2.12 with its many changes is seen as too risky to introduce into our current stable series or into any release that aims to be released as final by the end of this year. For what value of risky? If you are that

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 13:27, Wichert Akkerman wich...@wiggy.net wrote: But you can use a lot of the Zope Toolkit with Zope 2.10, which is an enormous benefit. If that was not possible a lot of the things people want to do with Plone would not be possible. Let's be clear here: Do you mean that

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Jens W. Klein
Am Tue, 05 May 2009 16:22:44 +0200 schrieb Martijn Faassen: [...] I care about the Plone user base, but would you really have said: okay, we should not move to Python 2.5 for Zope 3.5, because people on Plone which is still based on Zope 3.3 may want to use bits from Zope 3.5? Unfortunately

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-04 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Martijn Faassen wrote: In order to get to a conclusion: I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. I'd like to phrase the debate in those terms instead of the reverse, because ensuring Python 2.4

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-28 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, In order to get to a conclusion: I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. I'd like to phrase the debate in those terms instead of the reverse, because ensuring Python 2.4 compatibility is an additional burden for

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-28 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: Hey, In order to get to a conclusion: I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. I'd like to phrase the debate in those terms instead of the

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Martin Aspeli
Martijn Faassen wrote: Hi there, What do people feel about dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit? I.e. new releases of packages in the Zope Toolkit (handwave vaguely as we *still* don't have a canonical list) only have to work in Python 2.5 (and preferably 2.6), not Python 2.4

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Andreas Jung
On 27.04.2009 16:44 Uhr, Martijn Faassen wrote: Hi there, What do people feel about dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit? I.e. new releases of packages in the Zope Toolkit (handwave vaguely as we *still* don't have a canonical list) only have to work in Python 2.5 (and

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Andreas Jung
On 27.04.2009 16:48 Uhr, Martin Aspeli wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: Hi there, What do people feel about dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit? I.e. new releases of packages in the Zope Toolkit (handwave vaguely as we *still* don't have a canonical list) only have to work in

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Martin Aspeli
Andreas Jung wrote: What would be disappointing? To be unable to use new packages from an updated Zope Toolkit. It may be that some (many?) packages won't work with Zope 2.10, but if we get the kind of dependency isolation we're talking about, I'd wager that quite a few packages would work

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Martijn Faassen wrote: What do people feel about dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit? I.e. new releases of packages in the Zope Toolkit (handwave vaguely as we *still* don't have a canonical list) only have to work in Python 2.5 (and preferably 2.6), not Python 2.4 anymore.

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Andreas Jung
On 27.04.2009 17:07 Uhr, Martin Aspeli wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: What would be disappointing? To be unable to use new packages from an updated Zope Toolkit. It may be that some (many?) packages won't work with Zope 2.10, but if we get the kind of dependency isolation we're

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Martijn Faassen
Martin Aspeli wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: What would be disappointing? To be unable to use new packages from an updated Zope Toolkit. It may be that some (many?) packages won't work with Zope 2.10, but if we get the kind of dependency isolation we're talking about, I'd wager that

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Aspeli wrote: The Plone 3.x series will stay on Python 2.4 for a long time yet, so this would be very disappointing. I can understand it if the maintenance burden becomes large, or if there are compelling features of 2.5/2.6 that we

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tres Seaver wrote: Martin Aspeli wrote: The Plone 3.x series will stay on Python 2.4 for a long time yet, so this would be very disappointing. I can understand it if the maintenance burden becomes large, or if there are compelling features of

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Martin Aspeli
Andreas Jung wrote: On 27.04.2009 17:07 Uhr, Martin Aspeli wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: What would be disappointing? To be unable to use new packages from an updated Zope Toolkit. It may be that some (many?) packages won't work with Zope 2.10, but if we get the kind of dependency

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Martin Aspeli
Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tres Seaver wrote: Martin Aspeli wrote: The Plone 3.x series will stay on Python 2.4 for a long time yet, so this would be very disappointing. I can understand it if the maintenance burden becomes large, or if there are

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Aspeli wrote: Tres Seaver wrote: Thinking further on this: there is actually not much shiny about the ZTK: it is going to be equivalent to a cut-down, dependency-stripped, bbb-cruft-sanded version of the packages already shipping with

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Hermann Himmelbauer
Am Montag 27 April 2009 16:44:17 schrieb Martijn Faassen: Hi there, What do people feel about dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit? I.e. new releases of packages in the Zope Toolkit (handwave vaguely as we *still* don't have a canonical list) only have to work in Python 2.5 (and

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Martin Aspeli
Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Aspeli wrote: Tres Seaver wrote: Thinking further on this: there is actually not much shiny about the ZTK: it is going to be equivalent to a cut-down, dependency-stripped, bbb-cruft-sanded version of the packages

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-04-27 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Hermann Himmelbauer du...@qwer.tk wrote: It may well be that people (even I myself) use e.g. zope.interfaces or some other package in some Zope related or unrelated product where it is necessary due to some other dependencies to maintain Python 2.4