compat-python, Zope...

[Oliver Falk]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 17:23 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Well, the world sometimes is not as good as we would like it 
>> to be; we can try our best to fix it, but the task is really really
>> big; 
>> if you nevertheless try to do it you might forget the real goal you 
>> aimed for in the beginning -- if you are not careful you might get 
>> obsoleted and irrelevant on the way.
> 
> I wonder if a fraction of the effort put into building up a parallel
> python branch was put into fixing Zope to work with modern python...
> would we still be worried about compat-python?
> 
> There is a good chance that we'll be looking at Python 3 in a coming
> Fedora release, so Zope will be two major python releases backwards, now
> seems like a great time for interested parties to work towards getting
> Zope working with Python 2.6 (at least).

Spot. If it would be that easy, I would have done this already! Believe 
me. But
a) I'm not a python guru and so it's very hard for *me*
b) Even the Zope guys tried and haven't made much progress yet

See also http://wiki.zope.org/zope3/Zope3UsingPython25 and that's Zope 3.

Well, while it might not be a rocket science, it's for sure *much* more 
work than packaging compat-python + deps.

-of