-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, based on an earlier Zope 2.12 thread http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2008-October/033572.html I propose that we get out an alpha version of Zope 2.12 by end of February. http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2008-October/033572.html Major changes: - - dropping Python 2.4 support officially (Python 2.4 is no longer officially supported by the Python developers so we can not safely support it) - - focus on Python 2.6 support for the final release (although there are still some tests failing - more than with Python 2.5). Possibly focus on Python 2.5 support for the alpha phase. Not sure if we want to support Python 2.5 and 2.6 officially at the same time. With the current classification of Python versions within the configure script I would suggest: TARGET=Python 2.6.X ACCEPTABLE=Python 2.5 Python 2.4.X would be basically not acceptable but could be used at your own risk using the --with-python option. - - complete eggification (apparently pretty much done) - - reducing Zope 3 dependencies (apparently pretty much done) - - removing ZClasses completely - - ship with ZODB 3.9 (currently in alpha stage) Rough edges/open points I encountered so far: - - RestrictedPython security audit: such an audit has been made by Stefan and Sidnei. I am not qualified to speak about the correctness of the audit. I assume they know what they were doing. Unless objections one might consider this issue as resolved - if not, please speak up. - - creation of some skripts e.g. "mkzeoinstance" when easy_install-ing the Zope 2 source distro does not seem to work or it is still missing - - how do to a "traditional" SVN checkout of the Zope 2 and the related Zope 3 modules? The Zope2.buildout maintains its dependencies through a KGS - the old-style SVN checkout uses svn:external. I think there is a need for having both and don't know of a save way for keeping the svn:externals and the KGS in sync (without additional manual effort). Andreas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkl3KWoACgkQCJIWIbr9KYyKOwCfVI+gU1AZsIstWies9BVRGr4l +LcAn1MBC0jsed690vpeU2TJzYUz6xQ+ =YZQ/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----