Re: Can ZTK 1.0 support Python 2.7?
Christian Zagrodnick <[email protected]>
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On 2010-07-13 20:37:42 +0200, Tres Seaver said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christian Zagrodnick wrote: >> On 2010-07-13 14:12:01 +0200, Hanno Schlichting said: >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> We have Python 2.7 final now and some work has begun on making ZTK >>> packages compatible with it. Currently we still see various test >>> failures in the zopeapp set though and nobody who steps up to fix >>> them. >>> >>> Apart from that, we have made a promise to support Python 2.4 up to >>> 2.6 for the ZTK 1.0 release. The ZODB 3.10 releases do no longer >>> support Python 2.4 but require 2.5. The ZODB 3.9.x releases are in >>> maintenance mode for a while and currently don't support Python 2.7. I >>> doubt that we can get official 2.7 support for the 3.9.x release line. >>> >>> Given all of these, I'm leaning towards not supporting Python 2.7 for >>> a ZTK 1.0 release. A 1.1 can drop Python 2.4 support and we can try to >>> support 2.7 in addition. >> >> Yes, ZTK 1.0 should become stable/released soon. Adding a new Python >> version or removing one, doesn't help. >> >> But I really want to see Python 2.7 support rather soon. So how do we >> actually proceed there? Even after ZTK 1.0 is out, how is the >> transition made to 1.1? I suppose there could be a 1.0.1 at the same >> time as a 1.1.0. > > As soon as we get to 1.0b1, the release team will make a 'branches/1.0' > branch for stabilization, and the trunk can then be updated to drop 2.4 > support and add 2.7 support. Actually I was thinking about the individual packages. I assume dropping Python 2.4 should bump the respective package version at least from 1.x.y to 1.x+1.0, right? -- Christian Zagrodnick · [email protected] gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 4 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )