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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Baiju M wrote:
> Hi Limi,
> 
> Alexander Limi wrote:
>>  Sorry if this has been asked hundreds of times before — I couldn't
>>  find any info on this apart from the Summer of Code project related
>>  to Zope 3.
> 
> Now only the packages under `zope` & `zope.app` packages works
> using Python 2.5 .  I don't know the status of packages in `zc`, `z3c`
> and other namespaces.  I also heard Grok is working fine with Python 2.5,
> but not yet officially blessed/supported.

Indeed. The biggest problem that's preventing us from officially 
blessing Python 2.5 as *a* supported platform is a MemoryError on 64 bit 
Linux systems.

Possibly https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/zodb/+bug/153316 is related to 
this as well (another issue that's only a problem on 64 bit).

>>  Will Zope 2 ever run on Python 2.5, or is that postponed
>>  indefinitely? We see an increasing amount of users trying to use Zope
>>  2 with their systems that have Python 2.5 as default.
> 
> Nikhil, who worked on Python 2.5 porting of Zope 3, told me that he will be
> working Zope 2 porting after his exams.

That's great news.


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