[ZF] LWN: Fedora7 dropping Zope due to Python 2.5 incompatibility

[Kiran Jonnalagadda]

On 11-May-07, at 8:01 PM, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

> I bet it went more like this: RH-based distros use Python for a lot  
> of their internal tools and scripts. That's what they care about.  
> So if they want some new feature for those applications they will  
> move the Python that comes with the distribution to whatever  
> release they want, and everyone else be damned. Or to put it more  
> precisely, everyone who isn't prepared to make that jump with them  
> be damned.

AFAIK, Fedora has a policy of supporting only one version of any app,  
which is what makes Py 2.4 + 2.5 a problem (not that I think it a  
particularly enlightened policy).

A colleague who's a Fedora developer says there's an ongoing internal  
debate.


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