Previously Benji York wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Previously Benji York wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > I want to suggest two changes to the standard release process: > >> > > >> > 1. use "sdist --formats=zip". This works around a nasty bug in the > >> > python 2.4 tarfile module which makes it skip files with a > >> > path of a specific length. This can make a release impossible to use. > >> > >> The bug you refer to is indeed nasty, but (IIRC) was fixed in later > >> releases of 2.4. I'd rather not add yet another thing people have to > >> remember to do to make a release for the benefit of such a small > >> minority of end-users. > > > > It was introduced in the last release of 2.4. As far as I know there are > > no plans to make a new 2.4 point release. > > That is most unfortunate. > > Maybe we should officially drop 2.4 support instead.
Unfortuantely there is a large group of people using Plone on Zope 2.10 who can not upgrade to a newer python version, and they are very interesting in the Zope Toolkit candy. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
