[Mailman-Developers] Re: Error in scripts/driver?

[David Champion]

On 2000.08.28, in <200008290346.UAA14923@utopia.west.sun.com>,
	"Dan Mick" <Dan.Mick@West.Sun.COM> wrote:
> Actually, from comments in Defaults.py.in, it looks like that should
> have a from Mailman.Version import VERSION in it, so that importing
> Defaults or mm_cfg should get it...but I don't know how to use 
> cvs log well enough to find out when the import was dropped from
> Defaults.py.in
> 
> but it does look like a bug all right.

I know enough python to club myself in the head, but I think I hit this
one because I had a bug (since resolved) in Defaults.py.[1]  If
Defaults.py or mm_cfg.py have a traceback error, this looks like it
will come up.  By importing VERSION explicitly as below, you at least
can get the trace informationon the _original_ problem.  If it's
inherited from Defaults.py, then you still get this problem.


> > Looks like line 121 of scripts/driver needs to say
> >         from Mailman.Version import VERSION
> > instead of
> >         from Mailman.mm_cfg import VERSION
> > 
> > Otherwise, I get ImportError during the traceback report.

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[1] If you're curious, I modify Defaults.py to have a separate data
area from the mailman installation directory.  It's an article of faith
to me that software directories should be mountable as read-only, so
that any mutable data should be in another path.  It's also dogma that
symlinking your way out of that is non-ideal.

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 -D.	dgc@uchicago.edu	NSIT	University of Chicago