On 10/10/2013 06:56 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Steven J. Yellin <yel...@slac.stanford.edu <mailto:yel...@slac.stanford.edu>> wrote:Of course you want a Python 2.7 rpm, but if you can't find one, you can compile Python 2.7.5 from the tarball available via http://www.python.org/__download/ <http://www.python.org/download/> . Steven Yellin I've had to pull that kind of stunt to backport recent Subversion releases to older OS's. I do *not* recommend it for a production environment, because the Python is likely to be incompatible with other utilities. http://rpm.pbone.net reveals that there are some "python27" packages being published for SL 6 and its relatives, listed at: http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/SRPMS/
As I did not have any means to verify the integrity (lack of malware or other compromises) in the nux distribution, and aware of the above issues, I found the necessary RPMs from distributions that have community acceptance (e.g., Princeton) to allow the current BlueGriffon to build. The build was successful (after taking well over 30 minutes and during much of this simultaneously peaking all four X86-64 cores of my workstation at over 90 percent load) and I will report separately on the actual usability of the final product -- have not had a chance to test and not at the workstation now. I will separately list the actual RPMs that I had to download and install.
I do not have the personnel resources to be able to be a maintainer of BlueGriffon for X86-64. However, as I seem to have resolved the issues preventing a build, is there anyone or entity in the community willing to be a maintainer for EL6?
Yasha Karant
