[Pythonmac-SIG] Steps needed to get cvs2svn working on Panther or Tiger?

[Bob Ippolito]

On 9/16/06, Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I would like to use the cvs2svn script. This is my first experience
> with Python (I am reasonably versatile in perl). I have spent a
> reasonable amount of time, googled, read web sites, threads, etc.
> When I try the script, I get
>
> hermione-a:/usr/local/subversion/II2/ii2-cvsbackup gerben$ /System/
> Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/cvs2svn --
> dumpfile=svndump --dump-only .
> ERROR: your installation of Python does not contain a suitable
> DBM module -- cvs2svn cannot continue.
> See http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-anydbm.html to solve.
>
> The mentioned web page does not tell me how to solve this. In the
> meantime I have installed Berkeley DB 4.4 on my system, but that does
> not help. It seems somehow Python must be configured to use it.
>
> I tried downloading and installing a recent Python (Universal-
> MacPython-2.4.3.dmg), but that does not change anything.
>
> I have a few restrictions: I cannot use fink or darwinports or
> somthing (these are fine systems but are not allowd on my system
> because they may be accidentally used in setting up stuff for others
> who do not use it).
>
> I have seen on the web that this hits more people on Mac OS X, but I
> have not seen te solution. Help?

What was the error you got after installing Python 2.4.3? Should've
worked perfectly.

-bob