[Zope3-dev] Re: Python version for Zope 3.4 ?
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Thu Sep 28 10:10:05 EDT 2006
Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> Christian Theune wrote:
>>> Morning,
>>>
>>> Baiju M wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> What is the target Python version for Zope 3.4, is it Python 2.5?
>>>
>>> Right now it's still Python 2.4, as Zope 3.4 is scheduled for next year,
>>> we should consider using Python 2.5 though.
>>
>> We should definitely try to *support* Python 2.5, but we can't require
>> it till Zope 2 has been "certified" for it.
>
> I don't think we should commit to any official support for more than 1
> Python version for a particular Zope. So either we certify Zope 2.11 for
> Python 2.5, or we stick to Python 2.4.
>
> My preference would be to get Zope 2.11 up to speed. The last time this
> was discussed with Jim, the idea was to try to use Zope 3's security
> proxy approach in Zope 2 for Python Script security - Jim and I had some
> ideas I need to dredge up from the back of my mind.
>
> Jim, do you remember what was required?
Not exactly, but it was a lot of work.
See my other note about special challenges of 2.5 wrt security.
Jim
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