Martijn Faassen wrote:
What do people feel about dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit? I.e. new releases of packages in the Zope Toolkit (handwave vaguely as we *still* don't have a canonical list) only have to work in Python 2.5 (and preferably 2.6), not Python 2.4 anymore.
Btw. I just updated the Zope2 KGS over the weekend again at http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/Zope/trunk/versions.cfg It contains the latest released version of everything Zope2 depends on at least. So it should be a good base for deciding what exactly the Zope Toolkit is.
What do Zope 2 and Plone people in general think about moving to Python 2.5 for the newer releases? I'll note we're shuffling around the dependency structure so much in the Zope Toolkit it's unlikely everything will remain compatible for that reason as well.
As others mentioned as long as there's no good compelling reason to drop support for a Python version I'd rather not do it. Andreas mentioned the policy for Zope 2.12: It ain't officially supported, but we won't break it without a good reason. The Plone policy is: For 3.x is: stuck with Python 2.4 For 4.0: We require Python 2.6 and won't even support 2.5. But Plone 4.0 is future-ware that will be released sometime next year. Hanno