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 debate in those terms instead of the reverse, > >> because ensuring Python 2.4 compatibility is an additional burden for > >> developers and we need good arguments for *not* dropping this burden. > > > > Since I haven't seen such arguments besides the Plone 3.x related ones, > > I will amend the zope toolkit decisions about this. > > A few more arguments popped up since then, as I half expected, so I'll > remove that decision and re-open the discussion for a while. I don't > want to upset a whole lot of Plone folks.
Hmmm, maybe I'll come up with my suggestion publicly: If I understood the problem right, one main reason for dropping Python 2.4 is some error in .tar.gz compression. I don't know anything about it, but I estimate that such a bug may be relatively easy to fix in the Python 2.4 source code itself? If yes, perhaps there's a way to have the Python people release a Python 2.4.6 release? Perhaps this may be a lot better solution than endless arguing, speculating and eventually breaking other peoples code? I personally still somehow miss strong arguments for dropping Python 2.4 (except for the above bug). Best Regards, Hermann -- [email protected] GPG key ID: 299893C7 (on keyservers) FP: 0124 2584 8809 EF2A DBF9 4902 64B4 D16B 2998 93C7 _______________________________________________ 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 )
