[Zope-Coders] Heads up - setup.py

[Chris McDonough]

Actually, z2.py currently gives a warning at startup if you're
running under 2.2.  I dont think we need to protect people from
themselves at build time if there's a warning at runtime.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Behrens" <matt@zigg.com>
To: <zope-coders@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-Coders] Heads up - setup.py


> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:06:45PM -0400, Matt Behrens wrote:
>
> > That did get me thinking though, any objections to having
wo_pcgi.py
> > modified to do build_ext -i instead of the old walk-for-Setups?
>
> Hey, I have an objection. :-D
>
> Right now, if people have Python 2.2 and go to compile Zope with
> the old-skool method, they get stopped in their tracks and must at
> least read up a little bit in order to find out that 2.2 is
> unsupported.
>
> We could display a "please don't do this, think of your mother"
> message but it's gonna get lost in the long output.
>
> I'm thinking stopping the build dead in its tracks unless someone
> sets the environment variable
> "NO_I_REALLY_DO_WANT_TO_USE_AN_UNSUPPORTED_VERSION_OF_PYTHON" is a
> good idea here.
>
>
>
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