[Zope3-Users] Are we following the flow (Python 3)

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Sebastian

> Betreff: [Zope3-Users] Are we following the flow (Python 3)
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> I'm just curious, do the Zope 3 developers think about Python 
> 3 and if yes, what?
> 
> I mean, there is a lot of hype going on, but of course 2.6 is 
> perfectly fine and here on Ubuntu the standard Zope 3 
> instance even uses 2.4 which also works out good.
> 
> As far as I know, there is even more legacy stuff in there 
> dating back to python 2.3. (Thinking about the datetime stuff 
> that is bugging me every once in a while).
> 
> This is all not a problem now, but may be biting some time in 
> the foreseeable future, and the changes in 3.0 are not that 
> big for the API
> - from what I read - to make migration too hard.
> 
> So, do we have a stance in this matter?
> 
> - seth

I think it's just a question of when and who starts to do it.

The biggest problem I see with this refactoring is the opposition
from developers which like to stay with an older python version
because they don't have time to update their projects. That's
normaly the biggest problem in our community.

Regards
Roger Ineichen