From: Jon Dyte <jon@totient.demon.co.uk> Subject: [Twisted-Python] latest release & solaris Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 22:30:37 +0100 (BST)

Hi

just a couple of notes of about the latest release

1) the tarball (gz) for unix seems to have some funny permissions/symlinks/umask? in it. This barfed using solaris tar, with an error about not being able to create the file, so I downloaded the windows version and unzipped that instead, and chmod -R to something sensible.

The only permissions I see that are "funny" are that the directories are sgid. This is a common convention on our development server, so it snuck in there... We'll try not to do that next release. However, please use GNU tar to unpack this archive; as I understand it, solaris tar is buggy and uses an antiquated fileformat that can't handle long names, among other things.

2) the C extension module cBanana.c actually has some C++ style comments in it. I think this is fine for gcc, but solaris' cc compiler is less forgiving. I just edited the file.

Thanks for the bug report.

other than those two gotchas, it seems to work.

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