[Zope-dev] transaction pkg release (was Re: zope.sqlalchemy+py3 test failures)

[Chris McDonough]

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 06:07 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 03:28 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 15:22 +0100, Laurence Rowe wrote:
> > > I've added chrism as an owner. Before we make a final release I'd like
> > > to revisit the savepoint release branches of transaction /
> > > zope.sqlalchemy. I'll bring this up in another mail.
> > 
> > Sorry I haven't merged the transaction stuff to trunk yet.
> > 
> > While doing a review, I realize that one downside to doing this merge is
> > that it will kill Python 2.4 and 2.5 compatibility.  I think this is a
> > reasonable thing, given that Python 2.5 will no longer get any
> > maintenance as of today or so, and Python 2.4 hasn't gotten any for a
> > long time, and folks who need a 2.4/2.5 compat version can always use an
> > older version.
> > 
> > That said, before I go ahead and do this merge, is there anyone who
> > believes we should continue to support 2.4 and 2.5 in the transaction
> > package?  If so, for how long?
> 
> Nobody responded to this, so I've merged the chrism-py3 branch into the
> trunk.
> 
> Any word on the savepoint release branch featureset before I make a
> release?

I'm going to make a new major release of the transaction package
tomorrow (without the savepoint release features, and bw incompat with
2.4 and 2.5), unless I hear otherwise.

- C