[Zope-dev] Proposal: Backporting some Python 2.5/2.6 fixes

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Thu Oct 30 06:13:07 EDT 2008


Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>>> Would anyone be against this?
>> I find this pretty disturbing as it implies you *would* be running Zope 
>> 2.10 on Python 2.5 or 2.6 without fixing RestrictedPython.
> 
> RestrictedPython is its own package.

...which python scripts and page templates rely on heavilly.

> If Zope 2.10 / 2.11 does not
> produce errors 

It's not errors that I'm worried about, it's security holes.

> to run the latest RestrictedPython version with it to get a complete
> functioning system.

You're missing the point.

> Having a them available for review in a branch as Andreas requested is
> still a good idea.

Indeed.

cheers,

Chris

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