It might be possible, but we don't have, nor are we planning on building any RH9 machines to test and support RH9. So I can't tell you that this will work or that we can help you if it doesn't.
We're working on the Fedora stuff now, it's coming along quickly. --Ivan > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ag-...@mcs.anl.gov > [mailto:owner-ag-...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Randy Groves > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:45 PM > To: ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > Cc: ag-...@mcs.anl.gov > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Critical Python Bug Affecting AGTk 2.2 > > Is it possible to resolve this by installing 2.3.x on RedHat > 9, for instance? > > -randy > > At 12:14 PM 6/23/2004, Ivan R. Judson wrote: > > > >We've discovered a problem with Python 2.2.2 that has a > critical effect > >on the operation of AGTk 2.2. This unfortunately has a serious side > >effect for the platforms we can support. > > > >The effect of this bug is that the VenueServer .cfg and .dat > files are > >incorrectly loaded, which causes the venueserver to subsequently > >checkpoint them incorrectly. This causes them to get > corrupted and no > >longer work. The fix many people have done is to copy fresh > versions of > >those files into place at a restart. > > > >We have a test, which can verify if the bug is present on > your machine. > >Please contact us for details. > > > >We have two challenges we are dealing with right now: > > > >1) Getting our servers on platforms that have more the more recent > >python available. > > > >We are building machines with our internal build tools, > which is moving > >us to Gentoo. Gentoo support for the AGTk is not official, > but you can > >expect it will become official in a very short time. > > > >2) Deciding on how to deal with platform support. > > > >RedHat 7.3 does not have python 2.2.3+ available, RedHat 9.0 > is already > >abandoned. Therefore, we'll be working with external folks (Doug you > >know who you are :-) to begin nearly immediate support for Fedora > >Project distributions. We're accelerating this, and expect > to try and > >make packages for 2.2 available as soon as we can. > > > >This serves as official notice that we will not be supporting RedHat > >7.3 or 9.0, effective as soon as we have a working Fedora Project > >distribution available. > > > >We're sorry for the short notice on the platform shift, we'll try to > >make this as quick and painless as possible. > > > >--Ivan > > > >
