On 27.04.2009 16:44 Uhr, Martijn Faassen wrote:
Hi there,
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.
New releases should mean new major releases e.g. 3.X -> 3.X+1
(this won't affect Zope 3.4 or below)
One issue that came up recently was that .tgz releases to PyPI sometimes break with Python 2.4 due to a bug in Python 2.4. Using --zip is a workaround. And Plone currently depends on Python 2.4. Is it possible to work around this by *also* uploading a zip if we discover there's a problem with a package and it's pointed out there? If not, are there other workarounds?
What do Zope 2 and Plone people in general think about moving to Python 2.5 for the newer releases?
Zope 2.12 already *requires* Python 2.5 or 2.6. Python 2.4 support in Zope 2.12 is inofficial. Zope 2.12 will ship with those Z3 modules there are compatible and stable. Andreas