I tried updating to 10.6 this week.  I'm now downgrading back to 10.5.
There were lots of little issues, but one in particular (and what turned
out to be the main issue for me) is of interest to this list.

Offlineimap (fink unstable, either 64 or 32 bit) fails with a "Trace/BPT
Trap error" on 10.6.  Without drowning you in details, this is caused by an
incompatibility between Python and Apple's CoreFoundation framework.  It
appears that the Python folks added a workaround for this problem last month.

For more details, see
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.general/1561
  http://bugs.python.org/issue7144
  http://bugs.python.org/issue7085

In the two bug reports, it appears that the Python maintainers have linked
the python interpreter to CoreFoundation in a way that prevents the bug.

What are the plans for incorporating this fix into Fink?  I'm primarily
interested in a fix that would enable OfflineIMAP to start working again,
but other python programs are affected by this as well.

If I remember correctly, offlineimap on 10.6 uses python-2.5, which does
not appear to be one of the versions fixed by the upstream maintainers.
That said, the fix is trivial enough that I imagine it could be easily
backported.

Richard

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