From: Christoph Z. <ci...@on...> - 2006-08-22 03:35:53
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I think I'm now done with this round of bug fixing. Webware should now install and run with all Python versions from 2.0 to 2.5 as claimed by the Docs and the Property files (at least all the unit tests pass); and I tested it on some more platforms. The 0.9.2 beta release will be available in one or two days. But I feel this should be the last release to support such old Python versions. What do you suggest as the minimum Python version required when Python 2.5 is available? I think requiring Python 2.3 would be fair. This would allow removing a lot of backward compatibility hacks and more efficient and modern coding. -- Christoph |
From: Mark P. <ma...@mo...> - 2006-08-22 17:22:24
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On Aug 21, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > I think I'm now done with this round of bug fixing. Webware should now > install and run with all Python versions from 2.0 to 2.5 as claimed by > the Docs and the Property files (at least all the unit tests pass); > and > I tested it on some more platforms. > > The 0.9.2 beta release will be available in one or two days. But I > feel > this should be the last release to support such old Python versions. > > What do you suggest as the minimum Python version required when Python > 2.5 is available? I think requiring Python 2.3 would be fair. This > would > allow removing a lot of backward compatibility hacks and more > efficient > and modern coding. > > -- Christoph I would put my two cents on version 2.3, but only because 2.4 does not run on older OS's like Fedora Core 1 and 2. That said, as long a Webware 0.9.2 is kept on the web site for downloading, moving to python 2.4 and above may simplify future work. Mark Phillips |
From: Frank B. <fb...@fo...> - 2006-08-23 08:56:01
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Hallo, Mark Phillips hat gesagt: // Mark Phillips wrote: > I would put my two cents on version 2.3, but only because 2.4 does > not run on older OS's like Fedora Core 1 and 2. One important "older OS" to me and I guess to many others is Debian stable, which is in use on many webservers out there. I would like to see Webware not require any Python that is not in Debian stable at the time of release. Currently that is 2.3 at most. Debian's Python packages for "stable" are listed here: http://packages.debian.org/stable/python/ Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__ |
From: Frank B. <fb...@fo...> - 2006-08-23 08:57:40
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Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: > One important "older OS" to me and I guess to many others is Debian > stable, which is in use on many webservers out there. I would like to > see Webware not require any Python that is not in Debian stable at the > time of release. Currently that is 2.3 at most. Sorry, typo: It's 2.4 in Debian stable of course. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__ |
From: Christoph Z. <ci...@on...> - 2006-08-23 13:31:23
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Frank Barknecht wrote: > One important "older OS" to me and I guess to many others is Debian > stable, which is in use on many webservers out there. I would like to > see Webware not require any Python that is not in Debian stable at the > time of release. The same applies to the Enterprise distributions like RHEL or SLES which always lag behind. SLES 10 with Python 2.4 is only available since one month or so. Maybe we can go with 2.4 anyway. It would help a lot. Another idea: Maybe we should couple the move to Python 2.4 with finally jumping to Webware 1.0. We could then also remove all deprecated stuff, and maybe even move to something like easy_install for the installer. Bugfixes could still be done in the 0.9.x branch. -- Christoph |