compat-python, Zope...

[Till Maas]

On Tue October 14 2008, Oliver Falk wrote:

> So. Are there reasons, why there are no older Python version available?
> If we would have it, we could also package Zope/Plone...

The two main reasons I remember are

1) The fear of bug reports because of users running the old python version for 
software that requires the new one

2) The old python versions do not get security updates

So all effort regarding this is best spent on porting Zope to newer python 
versions.

Regards,
Till
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