[Zope-dev] The future of Zope{2, 3} and Plone in Debian and Ubuntu

[Fabio Tranchitella]

Hello,

* 2009-06-24 07:30, Balazs Ree wrote:
> What's the reason for the removal of python2.4? Is there a technological
> reason, or is this a policy decision? Don't forget that Plone users, who
> are also the biggest consumer group of Zope / ZTK, still will be users of
> 2.4 for a while. The unified installer is not the only installation
> method used for Plone, in fact many users and the majority of deployments
> use python + buildout. These users will need to read documentation and do
> installation to be able to bootstrap their buildout, which is not exactly
> a reason for them to choose Debian / Ubuntu in this case.

We already have python2.5 and python2.6; after the release of stable
(either Debian or Ubuntu), we have to provide security support for all the
packages, and supporting three different versions of python is too much
work.

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Fabio Tranchitella                         http://www.kobold.it
Free Software Developer and Consultant     http://www.tranchitella.it
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