[Zope-Coders] Re: test failures in TAL

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "MF" == Martijn Faassen <faassen@vet.uu.nl> writes:

  >> The unicode doesn't have to work under python 1.5.2, it just
  >> shouldn't break it more than it does now.

  MF> Yes, but why create a problem in trying to support 1.5.2 for new
  MF> releases when so far nobody has spelled out a satisfactory
  MF> reason? Is there some huge installed base of ParsedXML users
  MF> that can't upgrade to Zope 2.4 but do want to upgrade their
  MF> ParsedXML to new versions that I'm not aware of?

To answer your second question first: Yes.  In general, there are
users/customers that have not migrated to Zope 2.4, but do need
upgraded versions of several products (ZEO, ParsedXML, etc.).  There
enough of them that we (Zope Corp.) are committed to supporting them.

I expect that there are a couple of issues that come into play here:
You're probably not aware of all the Zope users.  Maintaining
compatibility with older of Zope/Python versions is probably less
important for you personally.  But if you've got a very large
production Zope site, upgrading could be a burden.

Jeremy