[Zope-Coders] Trunk officially requires Python 2.2, right?

[Tres Seaver]

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 08:14, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> > what are the pitfalls of using python2.2 with zope2? specifically
> > wrt to new style classes. in casual exploration the only thing i see
> > is that you can't mixin persistence with new style classes, but they
> > seem to persist ok as attributes. are there other concerns?
> 
> None specifically known.  But as a company, we prefer not to make rash
> announcements without doing proper research.  There are no resources
> available to validate such a recommendation in time for the release of
> Zope 2.6.

  http://collector.zope.org/Zope/200

demonstrates clearly that Python 2.2.{0,1} cannot be used to run Zope on
at least some platforms;  the fact that the same bug does not cause an
immediate segfault on Linux is merely a happy accident.

Karthago-delenda-est'ly,

Tres.
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