[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope2.8.7] with Five 1.0 or Five 1.2

[Tres Seaver]

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Andreas Jung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Zope 2.8 ships/shipped with Five 1.0 which is very old and no longer
> actively maintained. Most ppl doing currently development with Zope 2.8
> are using Five 1.2. Should we upgrade the Five version in Zope 2.8 to
> Five 1.2 to make their lives a bit easier? There is possibly a
> compatiblity problem involved and it is against the general rule for
> major upgrades of a
> package or product for a minor Zope release..I have no opinion on this
> issue...I just had this thought....

- -1.  This is explicitly the kind of change which our branch policy is
supposed to disallow:  we have no way of knowing what kind of damage we
will be inflicting on people's applications if we replace the version of
Five they deployed against with a newer one.


Tres.
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