compat-python, Zope...

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:44 -0400, 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?

It's a lot easier to change "make install" in a spec file to "make
altinstall" than it is to rewrite a bytecode interpreter/analyzer. So
unless the fraction ends up being much, much greater than 1, yes.

Not that I'm saying it shouldn't be done of course; it's just far from
trivial.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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