[Dev] Python Version?

[Mike C. Fletcher]

I would tend to agree that 2.2.2 is likely to be the most appropriate 
platform on which to build. 2.3 adds speed enhancements, apparently, and 
there's no reason a third-party couldn't release a binary/distribution 
based on it, but it doesn't seem to have many feature enhancements that 
would dictate using it as our base.  If we're targetting a December 
alpha for Chandler I'd rather be working with a released (and already 2 
bug-fix-iterations old) Python version (2.2.2), rather than one that's 
still in alpha.

Enjoy,
Mike

Michael R. Bernstein wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:53, John Anderson wrote:
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>>On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 07:42 PM, Michael R. Bernstein wrote:
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>>>From: "Michael R. Bernstein" <webmaven at lvcm.com>
>>>Date: Thu Oct 31, 2002  7:42:15 PM US/Pacific
>>>To: OSAF Development <dev at osafoundation.org>
>>>Subject: [Dev] Python Version?
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>>>Does anyone have thoughts as to which version of Python Chandler should
>>>be based on / distributed with?
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>>My inclination is to always use the most recent version that is stable. 
>>ZODB, for example doesn't work unless you use Python 2.2.2.
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>Well, yes, I agree, especially for self contained applications.
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>But if Chandler is going to be useful as a stable development platform
>(for third party developers to add their own Packages to), than the OSAF
>is likely going to have to make a longer term commitment to a particular
>version of Python, at least between major version numbers.
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>'Python in a Tie' (2.2.x?) is supposedly intended to be just such a
>long-term commitment (18 months or so) release, and it's likely that
>Zope Corp. and PythonLabs will base their application and toolkit
>releases (Zope and ZODB, respectively) on it.
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>Michael Bernstein.
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