[Zope-dev] Re: Zope on Python 2.5?

Martin Aspeli optilude at gmx.net
Thu Nov 1 04:45:09 EDT 2007


Alexander Limi wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:29:36 -0700, Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> wrote:
> 
>> The recommendation is still "System python is evil, evil, evil" (quoting
>> Jim).
> 
> Sure, but if you ever want to be able to tell users to do:
> 
> easy_install plone
> 
> to get their Plone site, it's a necessary evil evil evil. ;)

I don't think the System Python argument is the most important here. 
It's more important that Python 2.4 will start looking unsupported and 
third party libraries will start depending on Python 2.5 before long, if 
not already.

Martin

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Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who
want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book



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