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

[Martijn Faassen]

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. ;)

> We generally encourage not to use the system Python in everything we 
> ship (Windows, Mac and Unified installers all ship their own Python) — 
> but I really hope we won't be stuck with Python 2.4 after the world has 
> moved on to Python 2.5 and 2.6.

Agreed. Of course we'll still be stuck on Python 2.x for what amounts to 
indefinitely when Python 3.x comes out, but that is another problem for 
the future.

I agree that something like this is a necessary evil. I don't think 
easy_install plone should ever be the way to install it, unless this 
installs a 'ploneproject' that creates buildouts for you and then 
installs everything non-globally. Nonetheless, this should be possible 
with the system Python, just so people can try things out easily.

Anyway, perhaps some of the Plone people could volunteer in fixing up 
Zope 2 for Python 2.5 then?

Regards,

Martijn