Op 31-05-10 17:57, Florian Friesdorf schreef: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:14:17PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: >> (..) >> Still, if you ignore some of the parts by just doing a 'bin/buildout >> install python-2.4-build python-2.4-virtualenv python-2.4' you should >> still have a good replacement for the now removed python2.4 package on >> the new Ubuntu, which is a good thing. > > We succeeded installing karmic python debs on lucid > (http://davidjb.com/blog/2010/05/installing-python-2-4-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx) > > python2.4-minimal > python2.4 > python2.4-dev > > All further deps satisfied via lucid. > > Plone 3 successfully started using this python2.4 (PIL installed via pip > in virtualenv). > > > While e.g. libc in lucid is 2.11.1 and in karmic 2.10.1, all python > dependencies in lucid seem to be backward-compatible to their karmic versions. > Further, this should not change within the lucid release, and therefore > should survive all future updates to lucid. > > advantage: it is way faster than compiling python > > Any thoughts on this?
Yes, one of my colleagues found that link too and it seems to work. Installing the python-imaging package from lucid instead of PIL in a virtualenv should probably work as well. I'll try that on a new server. -- Maurits van Rees Programmer, Zest Software _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
