Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/04/11/11:17:08
Jason Tishler wrote:
> Godefroid,
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 02:59:45PM -0400, Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
>
>>Thanks for your answer,
>
>
> You are quite welcome.
>
>
>>sorry for the delay on my side, I am just back from vacation.
>
>
> No problem.
>
>
>>Jason Tishler wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:46:37PM -0500, Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
>>>
>>>>This is a question for the Python maintainer : I'd like to know if
>>>>he has the plan to release 2.3.5 for Cygwin.
>>>
>>>No, I only plan to maintain 2.4 and later releases. FWIW, Python 2.4
>>>is part of the standard Cygwin distribution:
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-12/msg00002.html
>>>
>>>
>>>>This would be appreciated a lot as it is the required version for
>>>>using the coming Zope 2.8
>>>
>>>Does Zope 2.8 run under Python 2.4?
>>
>>Nope, a full security audit needs to happen first.
>
>
> Oh.
>
>
>>How big is the work to produce a 2.3.5 release
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>
> Not much, Cygwin Python builds OOTB.
What does OOTB mean ?
Out of the box ?
Does that mean I can jsut get 2.3.5 sources and build it ?
If this is the case, I can live with it for development.
> However, I manually apply one
> patch to enable embedding. See the following for the details, if
> interested:
>
> http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/python/python-2.3.3.README
>
>
>>and would it be realistic for me to try it ?
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>
> The really issue is making sure 2.3.x and 2.4.x play nicely with each
> other when installed via Cygwin setup.exe.
That would be needed for people to be able to make Zope 2.8 run on a
Cygwin system with 2.4
>
> BTW, I would have preferred to discuss this publically on Cygwin list.
cced
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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