Webware for Python

As announced, a new beta release of Webware for Python is available for 
testing. It contains a lot of bug fixes and improvements, including many 
old issues from the SourceForge tracker. Backward compatibility with 
Python <2.3 has been fixed in many places. The idea is to switch to 
Python 2.3 or 2.4 in future releases and leave this release as resort 
for people who depend on very old Python versions for whatever reason.

Please test and let me know of any problems!

If everything is ok, the stable release can follow very quickly.

-- Christoph

Re: [Webware-discuss] Webware 0.9.2 beta 1 From: Oliver Bock <oliver@g7...> - 2006-08-24 00:59 Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > ... The idea is to switch to > Python 2.3 or 2.4 in future releases and leave this release as resort > for people who depend on very old Python versions for whatever reason. > I suggest 2.3 rather than 2.4. People on shared hosting accounts are often stuck with a none-too-recent version. Also, you'll get clueless complaints from OS X users (Tiger includes Python 2.3), who don't get much of a choice. I don't know about other distributions, but in general I've noticed that distributions that come with Python pre-installed tend to be conservative. Oliver

Re: [Webware-discuss] Webware 0.9.2 beta 1 From: Christoph Zwerschke <cito@on...> - 2006-08-24 01:33 Oliver Bock wrote: > I suggest 2.3 rather than 2.4. People on shared hosting accounts are > often stuck with a none-too-recent version. Also, you'll get clueless > complaints from OS X users (Tiger includes Python 2.3), ... We have discussed this on webware-devel, too. Distributions such as Debian stable, SLES and RHEL also move very slowly. I currently have the vague idea to make a Webware 1.0 branch that requires Python 2.4 and brings some major changes (standard installer etc.). This will not happen so quickly however and by the time 1.0 will be released, Python 2.3 will be probably completely outdated. If 1.0 takes too long, we could make some intermediate releases in the 0.9.x branch that would still run on Python 2.3. How does this sound? -- Chris

Re: [Webware-discuss] Webware 0.9.2 beta 1 From: Oliver Bock <oliver@g7...> - 2006-08-24 01:46 > I currently have the vague idea to make a Webware 1.0 branch that > requires Python 2.4 and brings some major changes (standard installer > etc.). This will not happen so quickly however and by the time 1.0 will > be released, Python 2.3 will be probably completely outdated. If 1.0 > takes too long, we could make some intermediate releases in the 0.9.x > branch that would still run on Python 2.3. How does this sound? > The 0.8.1 release hiatus appears to be over (hooray!), but maintaining two release branches may be a bridge too far. In any case, there is a trade off to be made with consideration of how much benefit proposed features get from Python 2.4; there is no point in frustrating the developers who contribute so much to please a dwindling number of users on old platforms. I'm happy to leave it in the hands of you developers since you are considering to the lag between Python releases and operating system distributions. Regards, Oliver

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