On 24.06.09 12:29, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
* 2009-06-24 12:26, Jim Fulton wrote:
So then, how soon would 2.12 need to be released for you to not drop debian support for Zope 2 and Plone?
The problem is not Zope by itself but Plone, which still needs Zope 2.10, which in turn requires python 2.4.
It seems that a new major release of Plone will happen at the end of the year, which is already too late for Ubuntu Karmic (next stable release).
We had the very same discussion with the guys from Canonical at some months ago at PyCon. My personal opionion: the Zope developers don't care much about release dates (that the "it's done when it is done" attitiude - good or bad...). Therefore we can not and won't care much about the release dates and requirements of each single distribution. The other question: are Plone packages included with some Linux distribution important for attracting people to Plone. My opionion: no. It's nice having OFTB support for Plone and Zope on the distros but the Zope and Plone packages raised more problems for serious Zope/Plone users in the past than they actually solved. Serious installations usually install their own Python, Zope & Plone from the sources or using zc.buildout nowadays (this approach is supported by the Zope and Plone developers). Andreas