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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:16:12 -0400
From: Godefroid Chapelle <gotcha AT bubblenet DOT be>
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To: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Python 2.3.5
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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
> 
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> 
> 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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