[AG-TECH] Critical Python Bug Affecting AGTk 2.2

[Ivan R. Judson]

It might be possible, but we don't have, nor are we planning on building any
RH9 machines to test and support RH9. So I can't tell you that this will
work or that we can help you if it doesn't.

We're working on the Fedora stuff now, it's coming along quickly.

--Ivan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-mcs at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-mcs at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Randy Groves
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:45 PM
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: ag-mcs at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Critical Python Bug Affecting AGTk 2.2
> 
> Is it possible to resolve this by installing 2.3.x on RedHat 
> 9, for instance?
> 
> -randy
> 
> At 12:14 PM 6/23/2004, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> 
> 
> >We've discovered a problem with Python 2.2.2 that has a 
> critical effect 
> >on the operation of AGTk 2.2. This unfortunately has a serious side 
> >effect for the platforms we can support.
> >
> >The effect of this bug is that the VenueServer .cfg and .dat 
> files are 
> >incorrectly loaded, which causes the venueserver to subsequently 
> >checkpoint them incorrectly. This causes them to get 
> corrupted and no 
> >longer work. The fix many people have done is to copy fresh 
> versions of 
> >those files into place at a restart.
> >
> >We have a test, which can verify if the bug is present on 
> your machine.
> >Please contact us for details.
> >
> >We have two challenges we are dealing with right now:
> >
> >1) Getting our servers on platforms that have more the more recent 
> >python available.
> >
> >We are building machines with our internal build tools, 
> which is moving 
> >us to Gentoo. Gentoo support for the AGTk is not official, 
> but you can 
> >expect it will become official in a very short time.
> >
> >2) Deciding on how to deal with platform support.
> >
> >RedHat 7.3 does not have python 2.2.3+ available, RedHat 9.0 
> is already 
> >abandoned. Therefore, we'll be working with external folks (Doug you 
> >know who you are :-) to begin nearly immediate support for Fedora 
> >Project distributions. We're accelerating this, and expect 
> to try and 
> >make packages for 2.2 available as soon as we can.
> >
> >This serves as official notice that we will not be supporting RedHat 
> >7.3 or 9.0, effective as soon as we have a working Fedora Project 
> >distribution available.
> >
> >We're sorry for the short notice on the platform shift, we'll try to 
> >make this as quick and painless as possible.
> >
> >--Ivan
> 
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