Re: Removal of python1.5?
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Jim Penny wrote:
> I would not care to be the fellow who had a mission critical application,
> who 'upgraded', and found his site no longer working, with no way of
> backing up to a working configuration.
While I agree with you in general (I wonder if it is worth a bug
report or if you should volunteer to package zope2.3 which could
coexist with zope) I have to say that somebody who does an upgrade
of a mission critical box without testing it on a test plattform
is not worth its money.
> For example, I serve technical drawings to essentially everyone in my
> company. Loss of this would cost thousands of US dollars a day,
> particularly as we no longer have a way to duplicate oversize drawings.
> (It would also cause me much grief :-( .)
Well the money for a simple testing machine would be peenuts, wouldn't it?
> Upgrade compatiblity problems would be particularly a problem for
> 2.3 users in that when 2.4 comes from unstable to testing, no 2.3
> .deb will be available, at all. 2.1 users could always go back to
> the potato package. 2.2 users, well, I hope things went well for them.
Mission critical machines should run under stable (potato).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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