[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: your zope-zms and zope-textindexng2 NMU's

[Maurits van Rees]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:00:23PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> So, zope2.9 should only be used by plone, the other zope-* packages
> (which aren't related to plone) can use zope3 (see also further)?

No.  There are *big* differences between Zope 2 and Zope 3.  Porting a
package from Zope 2 to Zope 3 needs lots of changes in most cases.  So
next to Plone there should be lots of other zope-* packages that don't
work with Zope 3.

> > no, again wrong. zope2.9 is only supported for python2.3. Please
> > again, ask if something is unclear, don't just upload.
> 
> Do I understand correctly that if a zope-* package work with python2.4
> it's safe to use zope3 as a dependency and otherwise it's not?

Wrong.  The python version doesn't really have anything to do with it.
Actually, a bit contrary to the statement quoted above, zope2.9 is
preferrably compiled with python 2.4.3, where 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 and
acceptable.  python2.3 is apparently not acceptable.  Well, that's for
the Zope 2.9.3 tar.gz that I have here; earlier 2.9 releases *might*
be fine with python 2.3; no guarantees from me.

In case you're not confused enough after these numbers:  Zope 2.8 (I
think) and up actually contain their own copy of a Zope 3 version. :)

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