Globus versions

[Ivan R. Judson]

Hey,

I'd like us to start a thread with the globus folks and keith to come to
some concrete plan on how we can get the stuff we need into their code (in a
reasonable time frame).  I'm not sure the bug fixes you're talking about
impact the new windows work -- what might be the issues there.

I hate to agree with your plan (I'd rather have stuff fixed), but the
conservative path seems prudent at this point, sigh.

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Robert Olson
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:19 AM
> To: ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Globus versions
> 
> 
> I did a little poking since I ran into problems getting the 
> programmatic 
> grid_proxy_init working on Linux (it is working fine on Windows).
> 
> On windows, we're using Globus 2.2 with GSI 2.0.
> 
> On Linux, we're using strictly Globus 2.0. That version has an 
> initialization problem with pyGlobus that breaks gpi. I 
> chased it some, but 
> it's still not resolved.
> 
> GT2.2 has the fixes available for that, which is apparently 
> why I was able 
> to make things work on Windows.
> 
> I peered at the differences between the 2.0 and 2.2 versions 
> of pyGlobus, 
> and at the fixes I've put into the FL version of it. They 
> should be fairly 
> straightforward to port over (even though they took a huge 
> amount of time 
> to work out, the actual code size is pretty small).
> 
> Considerations:
> 
> Win32 globus work underway again inna DSL. New distribution 
> availability is 
> a 3-month deliverable.
> 
> We'll need to do some porting work of our fixes into a 2.2 or 
> 2.4 pyGlobus 
> (and give the fixes back; there are still some old fixes I 
> did and sent 
> last year that don't show up in current pyGlobus CVS).
> 
> Given the timeframe, it's probably best to not do this yet. 
> I'll attempt to 
> get the programmatic gpi working on Linux, but if I can't 
> I'll just sigh 
> and use the ugly invoke-the-executable version, on Linux anyway.
> 
> --bob
>