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

[Tres Seaver]

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Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> In practice, though, people are using packages from newer Zope releases 
> in third party products, and, possibly, in Plone core.
> 
> One example is z3c.form, which requires you to upgrade zope.i18n and 
> zope.component That works fine, FWIW. :)

But it won't be "supported".  Mix-and-match is not what the toolkit (or
the related KGS / index stuff) is designed for.


Tres.
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