Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Aspeli
Martijn Faassen wrote: > Hey, > > Martijn Faassen wrote: >> In order to get to a conclusion: >> >> I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for >> new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. >> >> I'd like to phrase the debate in those terms instead of the reverse, >>

Re: [Zope-dev] zope2.12.a04 / relstorage / zodbconvert.py errors

2009-05-05 Thread Jürgen Herrmann
Shane Hathaway wrote: > Jürgen Herrmann wrote: > > ZConfig.SchemaResourceError: import name does not refer to a package > > Package name: 'relstorage' > > File name: 'component.xml' > > Package path: None > > I need to make a new release of RelStorage before this will work. > RelStorage 1.1.3

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55, Martin Aspeli wrote: > We've had some more discussions about this and the Plone release > schedule. The upshot is that if Zope 3/Toolkit drops Python 2.4 support, > it will effectively render it inaccessible to Plone users for the next > 12-18 months. We're not comfor

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Lennart Regebro wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55, Martin Aspeli wrote: > > We've had some more discussions about this and the Plone release > > schedule. The upshot is that if Zope 3/Toolkit drops Python 2.4 support, > > it will effectively render it inaccessible to Plone users for

[Zope-dev] Zope Tests: 2 OK, 6 Failed

2009-05-05 Thread Zope Tests Summarizer
Summary of messages to the zope-tests list. Period Mon May 4 12:00:00 2009 UTC to Tue May 5 12:00:00 2009 UTC. There were 8 messages: 8 from Zope Tests. Test failures - Subject: FAILED (errors=5) : Zope-trunk Python-2.4.6 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Mon May 4 21:06:02 EDT 2009

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Aspeli
Lennart Regebro wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55, Martin Aspeli wrote: >> We've had some more discussions about this and the Plone release >> schedule. The upshot is that if Zope 3/Toolkit drops Python 2.4 support, >> it will effectively render it inaccessible to Plone users for the next >> 1

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Martin Aspeli wrote: > > Since I haven't seen such arguments besides the Plone 3.x related ones, > > I will amend the zope toolkit decisions about this. > > We've had some more discussions about this and the Plone release > schedule. The upshot is that if Zope 3/Toolkit drop

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Martin Aspeli wrote: > Martijn Faassen wrote: >> Martijn Faassen wrote: >>> In order to get to a conclusion: >>> >>> I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for >>> new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. >>> >>> I'd like to phrase the debate in those terms instead

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Wichert Akkerman wrote: [snip] > But you can use a lot of the Zope Toolkit with Zope 2.10, which is an > enormous benefit. No, you can't, as far as I can tell. You'd have to remove Zope 3 entirely from Zope 2.10, and Plone relies on Zope 3, so this sounds unfeasible. The burden of evidence is o

[Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Andreas Jung
Hi there, I tagged and released Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 today (basically identical with the latest alpha but it includes ZODB 3.9.0 beta 1). I will cut an official 2.12 release branch at the time of the beta 2 release (except someone needs the trunk to be open for new developments). In general: the c

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Martijn Faassen wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > [snip] >> But you can use a lot of the Zope Toolkit with Zope 2.10, which is an >> enormous benefit. > > No, you can't, as far as I can tell. You'd have to remove Zope 3 > entirely from Zope 2.10, and Plone relies on Zope 3, so this sounds > un

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Stephan Richter wrote: > Plone is using z3c.form. We are currently in the process of releasing > z3c.form > 2.0, which has a massive amount of new features, which are very useful. As a > z3c.form developer I want to stay compatible with the current Plone release, > because (a) the code gets tes

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Aspeli
Martijn Faassen wrote: > As I pointed out, it is effectively inaccessible for Plone users anyway, > as Zope 3 is already installed. You *cannot* mix Zope Toolkit and Zope 3 > libraries just like that and expect anything to work. Why not? We upgrade Zope 3.3 packages to 3.4+ all the time to acce

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Stephan Richter wrote: [snip] > I do think that we should care a lot about the Plone user base. Right now it > is by far the largest sub-community we have. I care about the Plone user base, but would you really have said: "okay, we should not move to Python 2.5 for Zope 3.5, because peopl

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Hanno Schlichting wrote: > Martijn Faassen wrote: >> Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> [snip] >>> But you can use a lot of the Zope Toolkit with Zope 2.10, which is an >>> enormous benefit. >> No, you can't, as far as I can tell. You'd have to remove Zope 3 >> entirely from Zope 2.10, and Plone re

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Ethan Jucovy
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Martin Aspeli > wrote: > Lennart Regebro wrote: > > Can you expand on this argument, because I don't understand it. Zope > > 2.10 doesn't stop working because Zope 2.12 no longer supports Python > > 2.4. And you are not expected to use Zope Toolkit with Zope 2.10,

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Martin Aspeli wrote: > Martijn Faassen wrote: > >> As I pointed out, it is effectively inaccessible for Plone users anyway, >> as Zope 3 is already installed. You *cannot* mix Zope Toolkit and Zope 3 >> libraries just like that and expect anything to work. > > Why not? We upgrade Zope 3.3 packa

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Martijn Faassen wrote: >> In order to get to a conclusion: >> >> I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for >> new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. >> >> I'd like to phrase the debate in those terms instead of the reverse, >> bec

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martijn Faassen wrote: > This is a component developed in the context of the Zope Toolkit (or at > least post-Zope 3.4). It depends on zope.container, also new. We > released a backwards compatible zope.app.container (not in the Toolkit) > which relies on zope.container now for its im

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Martijn Faassen wrote: > What is the date that > you would feel comfortable about giving up Python 2.5 compatibility in > Zope Toolkit packages? I'm not leaving this thread without at least > *some* decision about this. :) Oops, I meant of course giving up Python 2.4 compatibility. Giving up P

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 5, 2009, at 15:58 , Andreas Jung wrote: > Hi there, > > I tagged and released Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 today (basically identical > with the latest alpha but it includes ZODB 3.9.0 beta 1). I'm trying to install the Zope2 egg (pulles in as a depend

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Martijn Faassen wrote: > Martijn Faassen wrote: >> What is the date that >> you would feel comfortable about giving up Python 2.5 compatibility in >> Zope Toolkit packages? I'm not leaving this thread without at least >> *some* decision about this. :) > > Oops, I meant of course giving up Pytho

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Hanno Schlichting wrote: [snip] > Given those dates the most commonly used Plone version will be based on > Python 2.4 up until end of next year by the looks of it. What about implementing the dropping of Python 2.4 compatibility in september, then? To give you guys a bit more time? Regard

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Andreas Jung
On 05.05.09 17:13, Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > > On May 5, 2009, at 15:58 , Andreas Jung wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > I tagged and released Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 today (basically identical > > with the latest alpha but it includes ZODB 3.9.0 beta 1). > > I'm trying to install the Zope2 egg (pulles in as a

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > On May 5, 2009, at 15:58 , Andreas Jung wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> I tagged and released Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 today (basically identical >> with the latest alpha but it includes ZODB 3.9.0 beta 1). > > I'm trying to install the Zope2 egg (pulles in as a dependency from >

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Andreas Jung
On 05.05.09 17:17, Hanno Schlichting wrote: > Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > >> On May 5, 2009, at 15:58 , Andreas Jung wrote: >> >> >>> Hi there, >>> >> >>> I tagged and released Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 today (basically identical >>> with the latest alpha but it includes ZODB 3.9.0 beta 1)

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 5, 2009, at 17:23 , Andreas Jung wrote: > Unfortunately I can't get SVN 1.5 get working on my Mac. SVN 1.5 from Fink works perfectly fine here. jens -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkoAXQYACgkQRAx

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Aspeli
Martijn Faassen wrote: > So I see two responses for Plone developers: > > * they know that they need new versions of zope.app.container and > zope.app.component too and require people to upgrade those too. This > might work fairly well, but does require the upgrade of more than just a > *few*

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Andreas Jung
On 05.05.09 17:36, Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > > On May 5, 2009, at 17:23 , Andreas Jung wrote: > > > Unfortunately I can't get SVN 1.5 get working on my Mac. > > SVN 1.5 from Fink works perfectly fine here. Macports seems to provide only 1.6 - I see no option for reverting to 1.5 with Macports. Andr

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Andreas Jung wrote: > On 05.05.09 17:36, Jens Vagelpohl wrote: >> On May 5, 2009, at 17:23 , Andreas Jung wrote: >> >>> Unfortunately I can't get SVN 1.5 get working on my Mac. >> SVN 1.5 from Fink works perfectly fine here. > > Macports seems to provide only 1.6 - I see no option for reverting to

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Chris McDonough
On 5/5/09 11:16 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Hey, > > Hanno Schlichting wrote: > [snip] >> Given those dates the most commonly used Plone version will be based on >> Python 2.4 up until end of next year by the looks of it. > > What about implementing the dropping of Python 2.4 compatibility in > se

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hermann Himmelbauer
Am Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 16:46:03 schrieb Martijn Faassen: > Hey, > > Martijn Faassen wrote: > > Martijn Faassen wrote: > >> In order to get to a conclusion: > >> > >> I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Python 2.4 for > >> new releases of the Zope Toolkit libraries. > >> > >>

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Benji York
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > Am Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 16:46:03 schrieb Martijn Faassen: >> Hey, >> >> Martijn Faassen wrote: >> > Martijn Faassen wrote: >> >> In order to get to a conclusion: >> >> >> >> I haven't seen convincing arguments yet *not* to drop the Pytho

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Chris Withers
Hanno Schlichting wrote: > Maybe: > > port deactivate subversion > > port install -f subvers...@1.5.6 I seem to remember on my Macs I just built from source. /me hates svn more and more as time goes on... Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http:/

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Lennart Regebro wrote: >> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55, Martin Aspeli wrote: >>> We've had some more discussions about this and the Plone release >>> schedule. The upshot is that if Zope 3/Toolkit drops Python 2.4

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hanno Schlichting wrote: > Stephan Richter wrote: >> Plone is using z3c.form. We are currently in the process of releasing >> z3c.form >> 2.0, which has a massive amount of new features, which are very useful. As a >> z3c.form developer I want to st

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Michael Howitz
Am 05.05.2009 um 17:51 schrieb Hanno Schlichting: > Andreas Jung wrote: >> On 05.05.09 17:36, Jens Vagelpohl wrote: >>> On May 5, 2009, at 17:23 , Andreas Jung wrote: >>> Unfortunately I can't get SVN 1.5 get working on my Mac. >>> SVN 1.5 from Fink works perfectly fine here. >> >> Macports se

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Withers wrote: > Hanno Schlichting wrote: > > Maybe: > > > > port deactivate subversion > > > > port install -f subvers...@1.5.6 > > I seem to remember on my Macs I just built from source. > > /me hates svn more and more as time goes on... The problem here is setuptools, not s

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Tres Seaver wrote: > Hanno Schlichting wrote: >> As a side note, we just started the community discussion about moving at >> least to Zope 2.11 / 3.4 for Plone in a release by the end of this year. >> This should take away some of the burden with Zope 3.3, but will not >> change the Python 2.4 situ

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hanno Schlichting wrote: > Tres Seaver wrote: >> Hanno Schlichting wrote: >>> As a side note, we just started the community discussion about moving at >>> least to Zope 2.11 / 3.4 for Plone in a release by the end of this year. >>> This should take awa

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Tres Seaver wrote: > Hanno Schlichting wrote: >> Tres Seaver wrote: >> Zope 2.12 with its many changes is seen as too risky to introduce into >> our current stable series or into any release that aims to be released >> as final by the end of this year. > > For what value of "risky"? If you are th

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 13:27, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > But you can use a lot of the Zope Toolkit with Zope 2.10, which is an > enormous benefit. If that was not possible a lot of the things people > want to do with Plone would not be possible. Let's be clear here: Do you mean that you need, in P

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Jens W. Klein
Am Tue, 05 May 2009 16:22:44 +0200 schrieb Martijn Faassen: [...] > I care about the Plone user base, but would you really have said: "okay, > we should not move to Python 2.5 for Zope 3.5, because people on Plone > which is still based on Zope 3.3 may want to use bits from Zope 3.5?" Unfortunatel

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 15:30, Stephan Richter wrote: > [...] I think that dropping Python 2.4 support in general will actually > massively increase the compatibility burden elsewhere. That would indeed be bad, and in practice remove the benefit of dropping 2.4 support. > Plone is using z3c.form.

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Jens W. Klein
Am Tue, 05 May 2009 15:45:31 +0200 schrieb Martijn Faassen: [...] > As I pointed out, it is effectively inaccessible for Plone users anyway, > as Zope 3 is already installed. You *cannot* mix Zope Toolkit and Zope 3 > libraries just like that and expect anything to work. I dont expect them to work

[Zope-dev] a buildbot for compatibility testing

2009-05-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Chris McDonough wrote: > On 5/5/09 11:16 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: >> Hanno Schlichting wrote: >> [snip] >>> Given those dates the most commonly used Plone version will be based on >>> Python 2.4 up until end of next year by the looks of it. >> What about implementing the dropping of Python

Re: [Zope-dev] a buildbot for compatibility testing

2009-05-05 Thread Sebastien Douche
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 23:51, Martijn Faassen wrote: >> Were this some other project, I'd ask the Plone folks or some other group >> that >> cares about Zope packages under 2.4 to set up a buildbot that tested "the >> ZTK" >> under Python 2.4.  Then I'd ask the same folks to to pay attention to

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Aspeli
Chris McDonough wrote: > Were this some other project, I'd ask the Plone folks or some other group > that > cares about Zope packages under 2.4 to set up a buildbot that tested "the > ZTK" > under Python 2.4. Then I'd ask the same folks to to pay attention to the > buildbot output and fix is

Re: [Zope-dev] dropping Python 2.4 support in the Zope Toolkit?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Aspeli
Hanno Schlichting wrote: > Personally I don't care if the ZTK doesn't officially support Python 2.4 > anymore, as long as nobody will try to actively remove Python 2.4 > support. For my part I'd be happy to take care of the BBB support for > those packages I use. I think this would be acceptable

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.0 beta 1 released

2009-05-05 Thread Andreas Jung
On 05.05.09 21:08, Michael Howitz wrote: > >> Maybe: >> >> port deactivate subversion >> >> port install -f subvers...@1.5.6 >> That did not work. > This does not work if this version wasn't already built before and > archived. Putting built versions into archive is switched off by > defa