[Zope-dev] 2.5/2.6 support in Zope (Re: The future of Zope{2, 3} and Plone in Debian and Ubuntu)

[Jim Fulton]

On Jun 23, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:

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> Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
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>> Zope 2 and Plone
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>>
>> Zope 2 and Plone are obviously related, so the future of one of the  
>> two
>> influences the other one.
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>> The main problem for Zope2 is that the current stable upstream branch
>> (2.12) still requires python2.4.

I don't seem to have gotten this. Weird.

> Incorrect:  Zope 2.12 is supported only on Python 2.5 / 2.6.  The
> INSTALL.rst[1] file says:
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> Prerequisites
> -------------
>
> System requirements when building from source
>
> - A supported version of Python, including the development support if
>   installed from system-level packages.  Supported versions include:
>
>   * 2.5.x, (x >= 4)
>
>   * 2.6.x


That's great news!  I'd missed this.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
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