[Distutils] [Distribute] What versions should we support?

[Hanno Schlichting]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Tarek Ziadé<ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> The current status of 2.5/2.6 support is unclear to me in Plone land
> for instance,
> I thaught it was effective.

The story for most of Plone and Zope 2 / Zope Toolkit is:

- Stable released versions of Plone and Zope 2 only work with Python
2.4 - nothing newer.
- The last Zope 3 release also works with Python 2.5.

By the end of this year we will have new major versions of all of
them, which do longer support Python 2.4 but instead need Python 2.5
or 2.6. They officially recommend 2.6.

Considering adoption rate of new releases, that means there's still
going to be a number of years where Python 2.4 is going to be dominant
in the Zope/Plone world. But then again there's still many Python 2.1
and Python 2.3 installations out there.

That calls for the willingness to support a backwards compatible 0.6
release series, but no features or improvements need to be made to
this line. In the end current setuptools and buildout works for all
Plone and Zope users the way it is. The Subversion 1.6 bug is the only
major one I encountered which hit people constantly.

Hanno