[Zope3-dev] Re: System python for *development*? (Was: 3.3.0 tag broken by zc.catalog eggs?)

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:44:47AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> On May 21, 2007, at 1:39 AM, Martijn Pieters wrote:
>>> Come again? Using the system python when developing has always been
>>> fine;
>> No. It has never been fine for any aspect of development.  If you  
>> develop with your system Python and deploy with a custom environment,  
>> then you've added a variable that is different between the two  
>> environments.  Also, system Python's are often hobbled in ways that  
>> hurt development.
>>
>> I sometimes get really weird error reports that are traced to system  
>> Pythons.  People who report problems to me that result from using a  
>> system Python make me angry and make me want to not answer their  
>> questions or otherwise help them any more.
> 
> I'd love to hear some anecdotes about this.  The ones I know about:
> 
>   * distros releasing newer point versions of Python with security fixes
>     (cgi.FieldStorage) that break Zope 3

I consider that a major show-stopper. An innocent "apt-get upgrade" 
pulls in Python 2.4.4c0 and all of a sudden all your Zope apps break! 
Well not mine, I use self-compiled Pythons for my production servers...


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