[Python-Dev] Building 2.1.3 on RH9

[Mihai Ibanescu]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Dennis Allison wrote:

> Skip --
> 
> I love the 2.3 release, but I need the 2.1.3 engine for Zope.
> Unfortunately, Zope is locked into 2.1.3.  Apoparently this is because of
> incompatibilities with old vs. new classes, etc. etc.  2.2 and later is
> unsupported.  All the docs say NO! but rumor has it that it works.
> 
> RH9 seems to have introduced all sorts of grubby stuff into the mix
> including big changes in SSL and a threads library which breaks a lot of
> things. It's frustrating to see Zope come up and just stop....

Dennis,

I do understand your frustration. However, 2.1 is quite old; guaranteeing 
backwards compatibility is generally difficult, having so many things 
changing so fast. I find increasing numbers of programs that no longer 
compile on my Red Hat 7.3 machine.

Can you provide me with an example of something NPTL breaks? Is there 
something I can do to help? Did you try Skip's suggestion of applying the 
changes from the 2.2 or 2.3 tree to make 2.1.3 compile?

Cheers,
Misa
 
> I'll try running with 2.2 and/or 2.3 to see if they work--then I guess
> I'll have to reinstall RH7.3 which I know is stable.... 
> 
> I'll file a bug report 
> 
> Thanks.  -dra
> 
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
> > 
> >     Dennis> Seems to be broken -- at least _socket does not build correctly
> >     Dennis> because of openssl changes.  (Arggh... )
> > 
> >     Dennis> Where should this be reported?
> > 
> > Well, presuming it will be fixed, the correct place to report it is on the
> > Bugs page at
> > 
> >     http://sourceforge.net/projects/python/
> > 
> > However, the 2.1 series is getting to be pretty ancient history.  Even the
> > Python Business Forum, when scouting around for a "stable" version of Python
> > to use as py-in-a-tie chose 2.2.x.  There is almost certainly not going to
> > be a 2.1.4 (unless you volunteer to be the release manager).  2.3 was
> > released a couple weeks ago.
> > 
> > You should probably consider upgrading to 2.3 (or at least 2.2.3).  If
> > that's not possible, you might want to look at the _socket code in 2.2.3 or
> > 2.3 for hints about how you can get the 2.1.3 version to compile.
> > 
> > Skip
> > 
> 
> 
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