Turbogears downgraded on fas servers

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 18:50, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 07:52:13PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 17:17 -0700, Jonathan Steffan wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 22:01 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> > > EPEL6 is going out of beta soon so on Monday I'll need to decide
>> > > whether to revert TG in EPEL6 to TG-1.0.x or work on fixing fas
>> > > further.
>> >
>> > Please don't restrict version upgrades in public repos because of FAS.
>> > That is not fair to our downstream. Worse case we can maintain an
>> > internal 1.0.x TG until we have all the bugs worked out for 1.1.x.
>> >
>>
>> It's not just about fas - the issue seems to be that the TG update is
>> NOT backward compatible which was the presumption on the pushed update
>> AIUI.
>>
> Yep.  Most people are moving onto TurboGears-2. So the only reason I want to
> have TurboGear-1.x is for compat with apps not yet ported.  Currently both
> TG-1.0 and TG-1.1 are supported branches by upstream.  Soon upstream is
> going to release TG-1.5.x as well.  TG-1.5.x is definitely not compatible
> (it's built on top of cherrypy3 instead of cherrypy2) but upstream told me
> (and in their release announcements, etc) that TG-1.1 was going to be
> compatible with TG-1.0.x.  Sadly, this isn't the case.
>

So how much of infrastructure is still using TG-1.0.x and how much
work will it be to move to TG2 since that may sooner or later be our
only alternative.

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