[Zope-Coders] Re: Tests

[Yuppie]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 06:47, Yuppie wrote:
>>Is there a need for the python 2.2 tests? I think that makes too much 
>>noise on the list.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure... that depends on whether we want to try to keep
> 2.7/HEAD runnable under 2.2 (which is probably a good thing should the
> proposed move to 2.3.2 fall through for lack of resources to do an
> audit).  But I can probably safely take the 2.6 under Python 2.3 test
> out as it doesn't seem to work too well anyway and probably will never
> be a supported combination? [...]

Current Zope-2_6-branch INSTALL.txt:

    ZOPE 2.6 REQUIRES PYTHON 2.1.X!
    Note: Using Python 2.2 is not recommended and not supported.

Current Zope-2_7-branch INSTALL.txt:

    Python 2.3.2 or later installed somewhere in the system PATH

AFAICT there was no security audit for Python 2.2.X, so falling back to 
2.2.3 wouldn't make any sense. If there are resources for doing an audit 
it will be done for Python 2.3.2 and nothing else.

That also means Zope 2.6 and Zope 2.2 will never be a supported 
combination. (But of course it would be nice not to break this 
combination because many people use it anyway.)

BTW: How likely is it tests pass with 2.1.3 and 2.3.2, but fail with 2.2.3?


Yuppie