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

[Andreas Jung]

--On 31. Oktober 2007 22:00:46 -0700 Alexander Limi <limi at plone.org> wrote:

> 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

Would be fine  but as long as several distros contain brain-dead or 
castrated Python installations there is little we can do - even if we would 
support
Python 2.5.

>
> 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.

Bring the word to the Python packagers.

>
> 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.
>
>

See above. Stepping forward with Python 2.5/2.6 support would be fine but 
it basically does not solve the problem that system python installation are 
often broken. Installation a Python from the sources is usually much more 
faster than trying to figure out why a system python is broken once more.



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