[Pythonmac-SIG] Question using cvs2svn

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 2, 2004, at 16:58, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On 2-dec-04, at 18:19, Janice Cheung wrote:
>
>>     Greetings!
>>
>>      I recently installed cvs2svn (a version of subversion) on my Mac 
>> OS X 10.3.6.
>>
>>      I've also installed Sleepycat Berkeley DB 4.3.21.
>>
>>      When I attempt to run $"cvs2svn" at the prompt, I receive this 
>> error message:
>>
>>     ERROR: your installation of Python does not contain a suitable 
>> DBM module.  This script cannot
>>                      continue. 
>>
>>      to solve:  see 
>> http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-anydbm.html for details.
>
> That is indeed a rather stupid error message: what it tries to say is 
> that the only Python dbm modules that are available are not good 
> enough for cvs2svn.
>
> So you need to install one that is good enough (such as Sleepycat 
> Berkeley DB), but you also need to install the corresponding Python 
> module.
>
> Does anyone happen to know about an easy to install DB + Python 
> module? Bob, anything in your PackMan database, maybe?

The one in my PackMan database may be too old.. building bsddb3 from 
source is probably a good idea.

-bob