[Zope-CMF] Re: RFC: backporting including python-package-product support to support Zope 2.8

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 15 Jan 2006, at 12:04, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> Lennart Regebro wrote:
>>> CMFonFive version dance confuses the heck out of me, we should  
>>> try to
>>> keep things simple.
>>
>>
>> Yes, I agree. So I think all of CMFonFive, including these changes,
>> should be in CMF 1.6. That ends the dance. It was a mistake to move
>> half of CMFonFive into CMF. We should have moved all of it in, and
>> called that 1.6 instead of 1.5.2 (but that's too late now).
>>
>> Doing this however, means that CMF 1.6 will NOT support Zope 2.8.
>
> I don't understand why that should be. It's also against everything  
> that
> was decided when CMF 1.6 was started. Plone 2.5, for example, will use
> CMF 1.6 and wants Zope 2.8 compat.

Philipp is right, we really cannot drop Zope 2.8-compatibility for  
CMF 1.6. If you simply drop any further CMF 1.5 work and only had  
CMFonFive that works with CMF 1.6 regardless of Zope 2.8/2.9, what  
would that leave you with in terms of CMFOnFive versions?

jens