[Zope3-dev] Re: zope.security problems related to Python 2.5 update? (Was: Removed zope.security 3.4b4)

[Christian Theune]

Am Mittwoch, den 15.08.2007, 17:52 +0200 schrieb Martijn Faassen:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Christian Theune wrote:
> >> Am Mittwoch, den 15.08.2007, 14:15 +0200 schrieb Christian Theune:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I saw the error reports about zope.security and got talked to from a few
> >>> people that they had severe problems managing around this. I removed the
> >>> 3.4b4 distribution from download.zope.org to allow them to continue
> >>> using zopeproject and grokproject until we find a fix.
> >>>
> >>> I wasn't sure about that, so if someone has even worse problems now,
> >>> please speak up and I'll put the package back into place again. I hope I
> >>> didn't cause any more problems than exist already.
> >> This is deeper than I thought. b3 doesn't work either. It looks like the
> >> merge from the branch with support for Python 2.5 is causing the
> >> problems. 
> > 
> > I can confirm that the last release before the python 2.5 support was
> > added (3.4.0-b2) works correctly.
> 
> Just ran into this one. I think removing it is the right decision. b2 
> did work for me, but b4 just broke on me.

b5 is available already, so the problem should be over. Just delete b3
and b4 from your egg caches.

I'm not sure that we should have to rely on removing packages like
those. As Tres pointed out we should just avoid that everybody gets
those immediately anyway, but we should keep them as historic releases
in general.

Christian