On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 14:27 +0200, Meneer Jansen wrote:
>> Freevo Python install script trying to use a command called "popen2"
>> which is deprcated in the Python version Jaunty uses. Pity.....
>Deprecated, but not removed. So the worst that will happen is that
>Python will print a warning, which does not affect the actual
>functionality. It's safe for you to ignore.
Hmmm, well that is not my user experience. As I stated in the original post,
it "does" affect functionality as I cannot run Freevo, I get the error
message
below and am dumped back at the prompt ....
... to save you re-looking at my original post the error message was ..
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bment...@mythbuntu:~$ freevo
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named freevo
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/freevo", line 491, in <module>
python, freevo_python = get_python(1)
File "/usr/local/bin/freevo", line 218, in get_python
child.fromchild.close()
AttributeError: 'Popen' object has no attribute 'fromchild'
bment...@mythbuntu:~$
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Any comments?
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Jason Tackaberry <t...@urandom.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 14:27 +0200, Meneer Jansen wrote:
> > Freevo Python install script trying to use a command called "popen2"
> > which is deprcated in the Python version Jaunty uses. Pity.....
>
> Deprecated, but not removed. So the worst that will happen is that
> Python will print a warning, which does not affect the actual
> functionality. It's safe for you to ignore.
>
>
> > Seems to me Python is a too hard to keep up with for programmers and
> > users alike. I cannot remove old Pyton versions because of dependency
> > hell. And Python does not upgrade itself in one single directory. So
>
> Yes, you don't want to try to remove the python version that your distro
> came with, because a lot of apps on your distro depend on it.
>
> This dependency hell problem is not unique to python. Try to upgrade
> non-bugfix releases of your glibc or gtk packages, to name a couple.
>
> Normal users should not need to maintain multiple python versions. If
> you find yourself in the unfortunate situation of having a distribution
> with Python 2.4 (now unsupported by Freevo), you'll be far better
> upgrading your distro.
>
> But most distros released in the last 2 years are running Python 2.5,
> which Freevo does support.
>
> I think the biggest legitimate criticism a normal user would have is
> that neither Kaa nor Freevo have properly maintained channels for
> packages of new releases for the major distros (Fedora and Ubuntu would
> be ideal first targets). That'd certainly be an area where we'd be
> happy to get some help.
>
>
> > for every Python version there is a unuque directory on your
> > harddrive in which a few of your favourite Python apps reside. This
>
> Point releases don't have separate directories. So upgrading from say
> 2.5.2 to 2.5.3 will not break anything.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason.
>
>
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