[Zope] [ANN] Zope 2.7.2 RC1 released

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:46:04PM -0400, Fred Drake wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 July 2004 01:09 pm, Andreas Jung wrote:
>  > Do we really want to enforce people to upgrade from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4? :-) 
>  > If yes, why?
> 
> As long as both are accepted, we're not forcing anyone to change versions.
> 
> Advising anyone to step backward from a more stable version is a bad move.  
> I'd rather see 2.3.3 go from being optimum for 2.7.1 to merely acceptable 
> than to see the bugfix release (Python 2.3.4) be considered the second 
> choice.

Another possibility - change the configure script so it accepts
more than one version as "optimum."
I think I could do that pretty easily.  Opinions?
 
> As with any upgrade, careful testing is needed.  If the amount of testing 
> needed is a concern (reasonable since it takes time), upgrade Python and Zope 
> in lockstep.
> 
> Now, it would be nice if it were easier to switch an instance home to use a 
> different software home.  ;-)

my software home is usually a symlink for that reason.

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Paul Winkler
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