[Zope-dev] shrinking the ZTK: a proposed solution

[Tres Seaver]

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Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
>> Am Dienstag 05 Januar 2010 11:58:38 schrieb Martijn Faassen:
>>> Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
>>>> But I have to further state that I'm locked into Zope 3.4.0 as the
>>>> support for Python 2.4 was dropped, so I can't upgrade to the current
>>>> ZTK.
>>> This is a surprise to me. I thought we still supported Python 2.4
>> That's a surprise to me, too: I remember endless discussions about dropping 
>> support for Python 2.4 on this list, let me see:
>>
>> https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2009-April/036387.html
>>
>> I thought the outcome was somehow that Python 2.4 support was dropped?
> 
> I recall the conclusion was not to do that yet.

Mailman says that you argued[1] for keeping 2.4 compatibility only for
zope.interface and zope.component.  I argued for keeping it for the
whole "bicycle-seat toolkit"[2].

>> But I'd appreciate it a lot, if I'm wrong on this! Do the tests pass with 
>> Python 2.4 for the ZTK?
> 
> I think we have a buildbot for it.
> 
> http://dev.thehealthagency.com/buildbot/waterfall
> 
> But I do see that Python 2.4 has a failed test, so we do need to fix that.

Which job?  There are a bunch of red ones, as well as a bunch of
offlines.  A waterfall which doesn't stay green most of the time is not
very helpful.


Tres.
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