[Zope-dev] Zope Python 3.2 compatibility

[Tres Seaver]

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On 01/27/2016 05:34 PM, Jason Madden wrote:

> 3.2: I know that some projects, such as BTrees, persistent and ZODB, 
> test/work on pypy3. However, pypy3 is only released in a 3.2
> compatible flavor (though it does support the u'' syntax). From
> hanging around on #pypy, there is some progress being made on a 3.3
> compatible pypy, but I don't think there's a timeline yet. So is this
> proposing to drop support for pypy3 too?

Not directly:  we would leave it in as tested, but could clean up all the
stupid workarounds for missing unicode literals (a disastrous example of
allowing purity to defeat practicality).  If other changes broke only on
pypy3, that would be a reason to leave their workarounds in place until
it supports the 3.3 stdlib.

> 2.6: Anecdotally (from comments in the github issue trackers for ZODB 
> related projects), I know that as recently as August of last year,
> some zope shops still used Python 2.6 in production.

I'll let Nich Coghlan's answer speak for me on this one:


http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2015/04/stop-supporting-python26.htm
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