On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 09:53 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 15.10.2008 09:17, Oliver Falk wrote: > Back then we tried our best to get compat-python directly into Fedora, > but those efforts failed. Hence Livna accepted compat-python (and hence > it made its way to RPM Fusion). But I'm all for moving compat-python* to > Fedora, so I really appreciate your efforts Oliver! I am still very very much against the existence of a compat-python* in Fedora. I'll even go a step further and say that the existence of such in rpmfusion/livna has actually hurt things rather than helped. Since rpmfusion/livna has carried this package, there has continued to be no impetus on the Zope people to actually move forward to a modern version of python. We had this discussion *OVER* a year ago and at the time a compat-python was "just going to be for a release". Yet more than a year later, the situation is exactly the same. And actually, it's worse now because people have realized that just base python isn't enough -- they need base python plus some set of modules that they care about. And another group of people will need another set of packages for their zope/plone deployment[1]. In three years, are we still going to need a compat-python2.4 for zope/plone in 3 years because, as was mentioned, we'll be going to python 2.6 in Fedora 11 and python 3 at an unspecified point beyond that and if python 2.5 is this much trouble, 2.6 and 3 are going to be far worse. We don't ship multiple versions of Xorg because a new version of Xorg breaks some driver, instead we fix drivers. We don't ship multiple versions of apache because apache2 broke some modules. <insert infinitely long list of other such things we don't support>. Why should python be *any* different for zope/plone? Jeremy [1] Want to have your zope and plone instances auth to FAS? Guess you need python-fedora now... How about openid? There's a different module there. Etc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
