Hello y'all, During the event "Solutions Linux" in Paris, I met a Zope developper who had very good arguments on how Fedora could be improved to support more Python applications (and Zope in particular). Since Fedora is rather python-oriented, and we're considering Zope for our CMS, I think we should consider this. I maintain the Zope & Plone packages in Extras, and I must say it's complicated, because Zope requires specific versions of python (not the latest) and Plone requires specific versions of Zope : - Latest Plone requires Zope 2.8.5 (http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/2.1.2) - Latest Zope is 2.9, which works with python 2.4.2, but zope 2.8.5 is unsupported on python 2.4, it requires python 2.3.4 (http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.5/Zope-2_8_5-released) Since Fedora only ships python 2.4, there is no way for the Zope & Plone packages to run on a supported python. The solution discussed with the Zope dev would be to ship python 2.3.5. There is a way to ship both versions, using the "alternatives" system (like sendmail and postfix). The symlink would be on /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python2. The only problem is with python modules and python applications which install files in /usr/lib/python2.4 - python modules should be compiled for both versions of python ex: python-imaging and python23-imaging - python applications installing files in /usr/lib/python2.4 should not have #!/usr/bin/python in the shebang, but the required version : #!/usr/bin/python2.4 and the package should require python24. The current python rpm could Provide python24. This is the way Debian does it, for example. And it works :) Since installing concurrent versions of python is technically possible, do you think this could be done in Fedora (of course, I'm not talking FC5 here) ? What do you think ? Any corner cases ? Regards, Aurélien -- http://aurelien.bompard.org ~~~~ Jabber : abompard@xxxxxxxxx "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
