[Zope-dev] Zope2: Reducing C dependencies

[Hanno Schlichting]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Martin Aspeli <optilude+lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>> For Zope 2.13 (trunk) I'd like to try to reduce the C dependencies of
>> the Zope2 distribution itself. Ideally it would not have any C
>> dependencies in its own distribution
>
> Why?

It simplifies the release process for Zope2. In most cases upgrading
to a new version of Zope2 won't involve any changes to C code. If the
C code is split out, we won't have to release any new Windows binary
eggs of any kind. Upgrades on systems without a compiler are also
going to be easier.

Hanno