[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] will CMF 1.5 still support Zope 2.5?

Tres Seaver tseaver at zope.com
Tue Apr 20 15:56:27 EDT 2004


yuppie wrote:

> Yesterday I tested CMF HEAD with Zope 2.5 and found some issues:
> 
> - several unittests are failing
> 
> - a recently added import of 'aq_base' in CMFCore.utils seems to screw 
> up security declarations (don't know what's really going on here) with 
> the result that the skin is broken
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if it is worth to fix these issues or if it is time to 
> abandon Zope 2.5 support:
> 
> - nobody should be encouraged to use a Zope version older than 2.6.4 
> (2.6.3 was broken, the older ones don't have the security fixes)
> 
> - development would be easier, e.g. fixing 
> <http://collector.zope.org/CMF/191>
> 
> 
> What about making Zope 2.6.4 the minimum required version for CMF 1.5?

+1.  In fact, I think I agree with Paul that we could require 2.7 (or at 
least not try hard to maintain 2.6 compatibility).  The sea change there 
is big enough that I'd rather not straddle.

Tres.
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