[Zope3-dev] Re: Python version for Zope 3.4 ?

[Jim Fulton]

Jeff Shell wrote:
> On 9/28/06, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> 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.
> 
> Why isn't Python 2.5 even supported at present?

There are lots of test failures.  Also, untrusted Python code doesn't
work with 2.5 due to major changes in the compiler. (Zope 3 does almost
no custom Python compiling, but it does do some.)

Jim

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