[Zope-Coders] Linux Test Results - HEAD/Py2.2 - Not OK :-(

[Tres Seaver]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:37, Chris McDonough wrote:

> I don't think anyone could construe what I said as FUD.

I don't think of it as FUD either;  I do see Fred's point about the cost
of bridging Python versions.  For instance, one bit of test breakage for
the 2.2 tests is that 'sum' isn't a builtin in 2.2;  Evan added 'sum' as
on of the list of "safe" builtins, and changed the corresponding test.
To preserve Z27 as "P223-safe", we would end up adding complexity to
such tests.

In Chris' defense, Fred's claim:

> We've been running Zope 2.7 on Python 2.3 as long as there's been a
> 2.3 to run on

has only been so for systems running in production for less than a month
(we weren't running any 2.7 at *all* in production until just before
that);  developers *never* stress a system in the same ways that users
do, so we could still run into some issue that was due to the difference
between the two Python versions.  I would prefer to treat any failure
due to such difference as a Zope bug, fix it to favor the 2.3 behavior,
and move on from there.

Tres.
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