Re: [Mailman-Developers] print >> sys.stderr does not compile

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:06:42PM +0100, Fil wrote:
> > So either point 'python' to 'python2', or change all scripts to point to the
> > right python executable.

> Well I hoped 
> ./configure --with-mail-gid=65534 --with-python=/usr/bin/python2 
> would do it. 

It should, probably, but it doesn't work for the scripts in bin/... Not sure
why that is. Barry ?

> > > But this must be a debian issue ;)
> > Partly, yes. 

> The explanation is here; python2.0 does not have the right license for
> Debian. Consequence: mailman is currently not compatible with debian.

That's not the reason for the python<->python2 difference, or at least
shouldn't be. If the licence isn't right, python2 shouldn't be distributed
at all ;) The name change is to avoid breakage in running scripts, because
of a few subtle changes in python 2.0.

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