[Zope-Coders] Re: test failures in TAL
Martijn Faassen
faassen@vet.uu.nl
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:42:58 +0200
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>
> Martijn Faassen writes:
> > Yes, but why create a problem in trying to support 1.5.2 for new releases
> > when so far nobody has spelled out a satisfactory reason? Is there some huge
> > installed base of ParsedXML users that can't upgrade to Zope 2.4 but do
> > want to upgrade their ParsedXML to new versions that I'm not aware of?
>
> I'm happy to see 1.5.2 support disappear for new releases, but there
> are probably issues relating to support for customers that I don't
> know about. I don't know how many customers we have using Python
> 1.5.2 that also need updated versions of the various packages. If
> someone tells me we need 1.5.2 support for a particular package, I'm
> not inclined to be the one to argue. ;-)
Ah, I was inclined to argue myself. :)
To get some input on this I've just sent a straw poll on this to the
zope-xml list, which has some 100 subscribers, presumably those most
interested in ParsedXML. We'll see what kind of feedback we get.
Regards,
Martijn