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Just a thought. About a month ago this would have sounded far fetched, but now that Guido is in the house, when might we expect the Zope Python version to change from 1.5.2 to 2.x? Imho for the book the Python version for Zope should at least be 2.xa1> It seems to me that by the time the book is finalized your team could deliver a basic core Zope 2.x Python 2.x release. My understanding is that its not that big of an issue. I'm sure it would just make the marketing team giddy.

It's probably a little more an issue than you think. Zope is a

I would like to get a clarifaction on this. It seems best to provide support for Python 2.x and provide a patch for 1.5.2 if need be.

pretty large codebase and if nothing else, introducing unicode

Seem to me a 2.3 designation gives you some leeway to provide 2 versions release perhaps 2 versions of Zope 2.3. One that incorporates work already done by members in the community. See links below for Python 2.x support and Zope 2.2.4. http://www.zope.org/Members/stevea/unicode_for_224.patch.gz http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/wstring Don't be like a certain company that stopped dos at 6.0. Or did they? The point is probably at some point in the future Zope will become the Windows of Python. Leaving us with Windows3000, Linux3000, and Python3000(W/Zope interface:-) Go Guido, Go Guido, it's your birthday! Long live the command line interface!

can affect a great many things. Its the sort of thing that needs to be done with a lot of thinking up front. Some work is being done on that, (esp. by Toby Dickenson) but 2.3 won't be the release where Python 2.0 is officially supported / required. Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-December/036990.html