[Zope-dev] Release management proposal

[Benji York]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
> Previously Benji York wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
>> > I want to suggest two changes to the standard release process:
>> >
>> > 1. use "sdist --formats=zip". This works around a nasty bug in the
>> >   python 2.4 tarfile module which makes it skip files with a
>> >   path of a specific length. This can make a release impossible to use.
>>
>> The bug you refer to is indeed nasty, but (IIRC) was fixed in later
>> releases of 2.4.  I'd rather not add yet another thing people have to
>> remember to do to make a release for the benefit of such a small
>> minority of end-users.
>
> It was introduced in the last release of 2.4. As far as I know there are
> no plans to make a new 2.4 point release.

That is most unfortunate.

Maybe we should officially drop 2.4 support instead.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation