Mailman CVS works on OS X!
Just wanted to report that Mailman out of CVS works beautifully with Python 2.1.1 from the Fink porting project for OS X.
I was able to compile and install Mailman after creating a "mailman" user and group in NetInfo. The configure process had a few snags where it was confused about the local hostname (I was not on a network at the time) but it continued on, and built and installed no problem.
OS X comes with Apache, so I simply changed /etc/httpd/httpd.conf for the Mailman entries, ran /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start, and was off and running.
Love that portable code!
Ben
-- Brought to you by the letters I and C and the number 1. "Frungy! Frungy! Frungy!!" Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and Nethack -- http://www.debian.org/
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Just wanted to report that Mailman out of CVS works beautifully with Python 2.1.1 from the Fink porting project for OS X.
Love that portable code!
I'd like to report a similar success, but OS X running postfix. Not only is Mailman well-written enough to have few porting problems between platforms, but also between MTAs.
-Dale
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:35:56PM -0500, Dale Newfield wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Just wanted to report that Mailman out of CVS works beautifully with Python 2.1.1 from the Fink porting project for OS X.
Love that portable code!
I'd like to report a similar success, but OS X running postfix. Not only is Mailman well-written enough to have few porting problems between platforms, but also between MTAs.
Mini-HOWTO! Mini-HOWTO!!
Cheers, -- jra
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"DN" == Dale Newfield <Dale@Newfield.org> writes:
>> Love that portable code!
DN> I'd like to report a similar success, but OS X running
DN> postfix. Not only is Mailman well-written enough to have few
DN> porting problems between platforms, but also between MTAs.Cool, thanks!
just-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-ly y'rs, -Barry
on 1/22/02 7:35 PM, "Dale Newfield" <Dale@Newfield.org> wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Just wanted to report that Mailman out of CVS works beautifully with Python 2.1.1 from the Fink porting project for OS X.
Love that portable code!
I'd like to report a similar success, but OS X running postfix. Not only is Mailman well-written enough to have few porting problems between platforms, but also between MTAs.
-Dale
I have been running postfix on OSX for about 1.5-2 years now. Absolutely beautiful and zero issues.
-jon
"BG" == Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:
BG> Just wanted to report that Mailman out of CVS works
BG> beautifully with Python 2.1.1 from the Fink porting project
BG> for OS X.
BG> I was able to compile and install Mailman after creating a
BG> "mailman" user and group in NetInfo. The configure process
BG> had a few snags where it was confused about the local hostname
BG> (I was not on a network at the time) but it continued on, and
BG> built and installed no problem.
BG> OS X comes with Apache, so I simply changed
BG> /etc/httpd/httpd.conf for the Mailman entries, ran
BG> /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start, and was off and
BG> running.
BG> Love that portable code!Wow, that is awesome news. BTW, I just last weekend installed OS X on my wife's G4, but I haven't had time to play with it much because it was 10.0 and a number of things didn't work quite right. I didn't want to sleep on the couch all week, so I reboot it to 9.1 and sent my check for the MacOSX upgrade kit. :) Soon as I get the 10.1 discs I do plan to spend some time twiddling with Python and Mailman on MacOSX.
BTW, I'm almost entirely Windows-free now (with occasional wagon tumbles with VMware that always make me feel dirty and ashamed afterwards. :). The Mac is a quite cool OS to play with and OSX only makes it cooler.
-Barry
"BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <barry@zope.com> writes: "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:
BAW> Wow, that is awesome news. BTW, I just last weekend
BAW> installed OS X on my wife's G4, but I haven't had time to
BAW> play with it much because it was 10.0 and a number of things
BAW> didn't work quite right. I didn't want to sleep on the couch
BAW> all week, so I reboot it to 9.1 and sent my check for the
BAW> MacOSX upgrade kit. :) Soon as I get the 10.1 discs I do plan
BAW> to spend some time twiddling with Python and Mailman on
BAW> MacOSX.Good luck! Make sure to install Fink and apt-get python, etc. Very good stuff.
BAW> BTW, I'm almost entirely Windows-free now (with occasional
BAW> wagon tumbles with VMware that always make me feel dirty and
BAW> ashamed afterwards. :). The Mac is a quite cool OS to play
BAW> with and OSX only makes it cooler.Congratulations! I use Windows now and again for games, but haven't used it for anything else in years now.. feels good.
Ben
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At 0:27 -0500 1/23/2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
Wow, that is awesome news. BTW, I just last weekend installed OS X on my wife's G4, but I haven't had time to play with it much because it was 10.0 and a number of things didn't work quite right. I didn't want to sleep on the couch all week, so I reboot it to 9.1 and sent my check for the MacOSX upgrade kit. :) Soon as I get the 10.1 discs I do plan to spend some time twiddling with Python and Mailman on MacOSX.
BTW, I'm almost entirely Windows-free now (with occasional wagon tumbles with VMware that always make me feel dirty and ashamed afterwards. :). The Mac is a quite cool OS to play with and OSX only makes it cooler.
[Off-list deliberately...OK to quote back onto the list if for some odd reason you want to.]
There is a newer /Developer tree for Mac OS X than you will get with the 10.1 upgrade package. It's a free download (200+ meg, but I suspect you have bandwidth available*).
Software update will offer you Mac OS X 10.1.2...you should also move to that after installing 10.1.
That's probably the version combination you should work with (for now).
You were correct to ignore the Mac OS X 10.0 installation and wait. (I've been using Mac OS X since March 24, but the machine wasn't running 10 most of the time until about 1.0.4, and is better now (10.1.2).
I plan to buy a fresh retail copy of Mac OS X 10.2 when that comes out...I'll be tired of the prospect of starting at 10.0 on a fresh disk should things go wrong, by then.
--John (who runs Virtual PC to run Win2000 on the Mac to support the management client for our firewall...VPC is quite impressive, should you need it sometime)
- I put two Macs (56K dialup) and one Linux-running laptop (56K frame) to work on the download task one Sunday afternoon...Apple provides the download in 10 meg segments for fools like me.
-- John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA
At 13:20 -0800 1/23/2002, John W Baxter wrote:
[Off-list deliberately...OK to quote back onto the list if for some odd reason you want to.]
Aargh...fortunately, there was no reason aside from off-topicness for me to try to send off-list.
--John
-- John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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