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 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.
That was the trigger, but not the primary reason. > I personally still somehow miss strong arguments for dropping Python 2.4 > (except for the above bug). The motivators seem to be: - 2.4 is old (it's more than 3.5 years old, people want to use new features) - no further bug fix releases will be made for it (the fact that a major bug was introduced in 2.4.5 with no hope of it ever being fixed) - including 2.4 we have to support 3 major versions Python Most people seem to be moving to 2.5 or 2.6 and we (the community) don't have a good infrastructure to support 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 on each of the platforms we want. -- Benji York Senior Software Engineer Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ 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 )
