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 >> Python 2.5 (and preferably 2.6), not Python 2.4 anymore. >> >> (this won't affect Zope 3.4 or below) >> >> One issue that came up recently was that .tgz releases to PyPI sometimes >> break with Python 2.4 due to a bug in Python 2.4. Using --zip is a >> workaround. And Plone currently depends on Python 2.4. Is it possible to >> work around this by *also* uploading a zip if we discover there's a >> problem with a package and it's pointed out there? If not, are there >> other workarounds? >> >> What do Zope 2 and Plone people in general think about moving to Python >> 2.5 for the newer releases? I'll note we're shuffling around the >> dependency structure so much in the Zope Toolkit it's unlikely >> everything will remain compatible for that reason as well. >> > The Plone 3.x series will stay on Python 2.4 for a long time yet, so > this would be very disappointing. >
What would be disappointing? Andreas _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org 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 )