Today marked an important milestone in the history of Zope2. With the first alpha release of the next major version of Zope2, it proves once again to be still a serious player in the Python world. Thanks to a focused effort of its active community we have taken Zope2 to the next level.
This release not only introduces support for both Python 2.5 and 2.6, includes the latest versions of the ZODB and the Zope component libraries, both still under heavy development each, but also redefines its installation story: Zope2 is now fully eggified and plays nicely with the standard way of installing Python packages today: setuptools - easy_install Zope2 at will.
If this wouldn't be enough in itself, the last weeks have seen an incredible uptake in updating Zope2's documentation and http://docs.zope.org/zope2/ is shaping up nicely. You can read more about the new release at: http://docs.zope.org/zope2/releases/2.12/.
In order to include the latest versions of the ZODB and the Zope components, a final release is not expected before Summer 2009.
The next major version of Plone is developed based on Zope 2.12 and we are more than happy to have such a strong foundation for our work.
Thursday, February 26
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Bravo!
/me owes Hanno much beer: I hope I
can pay down some of the debt at PyCon.
This is awesome.
A fully eggified stack, Plone trunk running using WSGI by default — Plone and Zope are really starting to play nicer with the rest of the Python universe.
Exciting times!
And Hanno and everyone else helping make this a reality need to be "taken care of" (ie. beer ;) at the next possible opportunity.
Mad props! Very excited about this, indeed. Thanks for all the hard work Hanno, et al. Very much looking forward to using this new stack.
Well done! Congrats
Congrats to you and all others who worked on this!
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