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
