Bug#335488: [Pkg-zope-developers] Re: Bug#335488: Removal request for old zope packages

Jeroen van Wolffelaar jeroen at wolffelaar.nl
Sun Nov 27 02:54:40 UTC 2005


On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:54:11PM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> On gio, 24 nov 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > I mailed you guys now because I think that by that time, it is no longer
> > possible to consider doing anything for etch, and that changes like
> > discontinuing a branch of software in Debian take time.
> > 
> > Anyway, thank you all for considering this, I'll now shut up, and let
> > the people who are doing all the work on zope decide about this.
> 
> Please, do not shut up.. I'm really interested in your arguments and I
> suppose others too. As far as I'm concerned, the main zope products already
> depend on zope2.8 | zope2.7 (and I'm thinking about plone and cps), so 
> removing the latter one shouldn't be too hard.
> 
> I completely agree that we'll have to remove zope2.7, but I would prefer
> to leave it around untill the removal is really needed, mainly because there
> are a lot of people out using zope2.7 within testing (or even unstable)
> because zope products life-cycle is faster than debian stable's one.
> Plone will not depend anymore on zope2.7 in a near future (with the next
> release, the development team will start using Five, which is shipped with
> zope2.8 only), and I think that could be the right moment to drop zope2.7
> support. Other opinions?

It all depends on the various timelines. One thing to consider is that
newer versions typically don't get as much testing by users as long as
people still have a good reason to use the old version, but as you say,
there's still an important program (plone) depending on zope2.7. In any
case, what you suggest, seems reasonable to me, the quite uninformed
outsider. I don't think I've more useful things to say about this :).

--Jeroen

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