[Zope-dev] Re: Zope on Python 2.5?

[Alexander Limi]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:29:36 -0700, Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> wrote:

> The recommendation is still "System python is evil, evil, evil" (quoting
> Jim).

Sure, but if you ever want to be able to tell users to do:

easy_install plone

to get their Plone site, it's a necessary evil evil evil. ;)

We generally encourage not to use the system Python in everything we ship  
(Windows, Mac and Unified installers all ship their own Python) — but I  
really hope we won't be stuck with Python 2.4 after the world has moved on  
to Python 2.5 and 2.6.

I agree that for proper deployments, you shouldn't use the system Python,  
but there's the case of letting people get started with Plone easily from  
their Ubuntu or Mac OS X (Leopard ships with Python 2.5 and easy_install  
by default) — we should be able to let them do that too.

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Alexander Limi · http://limi.net