[Zope-dev] Zope2: Reducing C dependencies

[Martin Aspeli]

Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Martin Aspeli<optilude+lists at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>>> For Zope 2.13 (trunk) I'd like to try to reduce the C dependencies of
>>> the Zope2 distribution itself. Ideally it would not have any C
>>> dependencies in its own distribution
>> Why?
>
> It simplifies the release process for Zope2. In most cases upgrading
> to a new version of Zope2 won't involve any changes to C code. If the
> C code is split out, we won't have to release any new Windows binary
> eggs of any kind. Upgrades on systems without a compiler are also
> going to be easier.

+1

I'm generally for it, we just need to (a) make sure we're not going to 
negatively impact performance if we can help it and (b) explain our 
rationale.

Martin

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