I'm beginning to replace the Mailman 2.1.9 installation on Solaris 9 Sparc, which has served us very well for the last two years. The new target machines are Sun Ultra 60's, one running Solaris 10-u4 (8/07) and the other, Solaris 10-u6 (10/08). All that is on either machine is a fresh install of Solaris (full install).
While I've been through the drill of building and installing both Python and Mailman on Solaris before, I have a few obsrvations and questions. I went through the Mailman web page to find a download site. Going to Sourceforge offers only 2.12.rc1 unless you click "stable" on the first screen. I was unable to download either 2.1.11 or 2.1.12 from Sourceforge. That site links to Superb Hosting, which appears to be unresponsive. I had to get the software from the alternative GNU site. Both of the Solaris installs include Python 2.4.4. Whether the Solaris build is something resembling a full build or not, I don't know, but will soon find out unless someone has checked this out before me. In the past, getting anything resembling a full build of Python on Solaris has been a labor of love (porting the build scripts), and I'd prefer not to have to build and install another version of Python. I see Mark Sapiro's mail about incompatibility between 2.1.12rc1 and Python 2.4. My production installations have to have an archive search (not part of Mailman). In the past, we've used htDig 3.1.6, which is decidedly long in tooth, particularly as it requires gcc/g++ 2.95.3 to build (will not build with gcc 3 or above). For one installation, I'll filch the already-built binaries. However, I'll reopen the question of a better (and currently-maintained) search engine. I'm aware of a mail list discussing using Mhonarc and Mnogosearch, but nothing since the last posts to that site (early 2006). Is there something newer and better, or is doing the porting work needed to use Mnogosearch the best alternative available? One issue with the current 2.1.9 installation is performance while searching archives with htDig. We currently have 5gb of archives, and archive searches are very popular with our listers. I have picked up the patches for htDig->Mailman integration for 2.1.11 and assume I'm on my own for 2.1.12, for the present. Unless somebody tells me otherwise, I'll assume that I'm the first installing 2.1.12 on Solaris 10. That will go on the later (current rev) machine. Worth noting that on Solaris 10 10/08, it appears that sun has included the Studio 12 development system, with the c compiler in /usr/bin/cc. While our old nemesis, the BSD stub /usr/bin/cc is still there, a PATH that has /usr/bin before /usr/ucb should find a working cc. The config.pck files currently on the production system are for 2.1.9. If I build 2.1.11 and 2.1.12 as fresh builds and installs (no upgrade) and later copy my 2.1.9 config.pck files into them, will Mailman detect and correct the configuration? Any notes, comments, advice greatly appreciated. Hank ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
