[Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

[Tres Seaver]

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Tres Seaver wrote:
> Martin Aspeli wrote:
> 
>> The Plone 3.x series will stay on Python 2.4 for a long time yet, so
>> this would be very disappointing. I can understand it if the maintenance
>> burden becomes large, or if there are compelling features of 2.5/2.6
>> that we really want to make use of. The tgz issue seems like a pretty
>> weak reason, though, especially since there are workarounds.
> 
> "Stability or goodies, pick one".  If you can't upgrade to a newer
> Python / Zope, you can't use the ZTK, which *cannot* be constrained by
> backwared compatiblity with pre-2.12 Zope versions:  those versions are
> stuck with using the Zope 3.3 / 3.4 trees on which they were originally
> based, just as they are stuck with Python 2.4.

Thinking further on this:  there is actually not much "shiny" about the
ZTK:  it is going to be equivalent to a cut-down, dependency-stripped,
bbb-cruft-sanded version of the packages already shipping with Zope
2.10.x / 2.11.x.  Until Plone quits using Zope2 altogether (likely
never, AFAIK) Plone has no direct interest in the ZTK, which is just a
layer of the Zope2 stack from Plone's perspective.


Tres.
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