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 -- hermann@qwer.tk GPG key ID: 299893C7 (on keyservers) FP: 0124 2584 8809 EF2A DBF9 4902 64B4 D16B 2998 93C7