[Zope3-dev] Re: What does python 3000 mean for zope?

Baiju M mbaiju at zeomega.com
Mon Sep 3 08:05:13 EDT 2007


nikhil wrote:
> > Especially the difficult part, the untrusted code stuff in Zope 2,
> > hasn't been tackled at all.
>
>  At present the tests are passing for RestrictedPython( for Zope2
>  also). Also I have been analyzing the new language features added and
>  is trying to add new tests for checking this. But I haven't yet found
>  any that will compromise the security and also I think the present
>  tests mostly covers these. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
>  Now as far as Zope2 is considered, although not a part of my project
>  I will be looking into that too. But as far as I looked, it may
>  require unavoidable C code changes and I would like to know the
>  general opinion on conditional compilation (if no other option is
>  present).

I think we can support  just one version (2.5) without conditional 
compilation ?
We never supported two Python versions at a time, is it ?
But for core packages like ZODB,zope.interface etc. we should support
more versions (as we are doing now).

Regards,
Baiju M



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