[Zope-CMF] Re: [z3-five] Re: RFC: backporting including python-package-product support to support Zope 2.8

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:12:46PM +0100, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> | Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> | > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:26:09PM +0100, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> | > | Then again, Zope 2.9 is "stable" (people don't really trust a .0
> | > | release) and we could release Five 1.4 any time after Rocky is done. So
> | > | there's really no reason for people NOT to upgrade, I guess.
> | > 
> | > There is at least one reason: People running python2.3 must switch to
> | > python2.4 for Zope 2.9. That's somewhat painful, at least on
> | > Windows.
> | 
> | AFAIK installing multiple Python versions on Windows isn't a problem.
> | Plus, doesn't Zope 2 ship with its own Python anyways?
> 
> Yes, the issue is not installing python, but packaging Zope. People
> building installers for Windows have to have a MSVC > 7 and there
> might be a significant amount of work involved on making all
> dependencies of those installers work on Python2.4.

True. Good point. But for how long do these people (I assume Enfold is
one of them) plan to stick with Zope 2.8 then? I mean, they have to move
forward at *some* point. Sure, it won't happen over night, but neither
will Products-less packages in Zope 2...

Philipp