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

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Tres Seaver writes:
 > 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

I'd thought there were cases older than that, though not by much.
Part of that may be I'm not close enough to that layer of deployment
to know what's being used.

 > (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

Agreed.

 > 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.

Sounds like a good plan to me, but I may be biased.  ;-)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
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