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 and fix issues exposed by the buildbot > over time. > > Then, as a community, decree that all packages in the ZTK should be kept > 2.4 compatible until such time as the decree is lifted, but don't make each > developer test using Python 2.4 by hand. Instead, leave that job to the > buildbot and let it catch errors. Personally, as long as I know some code > breaks under 2.4 because someone put some 2.5-ism in it, I usually find it > pretty easy to fix. > > Once the decree is lifted, 2.4-ifying code becomes a negotiation between > the committer and the folks who want that bit of code to still be > 2.4-compatible. There doesn't need to be a "d-day" where everything becomes > 2.4-incompatible.
I think this is a totally fair requirement. I do not test with Py 2.4 anymore either and rely on buildbots and people to tell me about incompatibilities. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter Web Software Design, Development and Training Google me. "Zope Stephan Richter" _______________________________________________ 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 )
