[Zope-dev] Python 2

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:52:44 +0000


On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:20:53 -0500, "Brian Lloyd" <brian@digicool.com>
wrote:

>> Is python 2 ready for the upcoming beta? Will the next release of=20
>> zope win32
>> come with python 2 or use the installed python if available?
>
>I expect Zope 2.4 to be Python 2 (probably 2.1). Right now=20
>the binary releases have a self-contained Python, and I=20
>expect that to continue when we move to Python 2. Note that=20
>you can make a binary release use an existing python by=20
>just changing the start script to point to your chosen=20
>Python executable instead of the bundled one.

That wont be quite enough on win32, not sure about other platforms.

The binary release contains extensions that link with the python15.dll
They need to be recompiled for 2.0, and will then link with
python20.dll


Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com