Zope packages in Extras

[Aurelien Bompard]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 11:23 +0100, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
>> Zope is kind of tricky as regards to versions, and Plone is even more
>> picky. Plone usually requires a specific version of Zope (not the last
>> one of course), and both packages require specific versions of python...
>> 
>> With Zope3 around the corner, we'll have to roll out a separate package,
>> since it's not compatible. And if we wanted to do as upstream recommands,
>> we would have to use our own python 2.3 packages, since the latest Zope
>> is unsupported on python 2.4. That's a lot of work for me alone.
>> 
> I just looked at Zope and Zope3 on Friday.  It looks like Zope-3.1 is
> out (as a stable product) and it works fine with python-2.4.1.

Yes, Zope3 will work with our python, but it still needs to be in a separate
package, because many Zope Products work only on Zope2 at the moment.

> My understanding is that Zope2 has to have security audits of the python
> versions it can run on before they release so Zope2 is going to continue
> to lag behind a bit on what python version can be used.

Yes, I understand their position, but it's just too much work for me to
maintain another version of python just for Zope.


Aurélien
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