[AG-TECH] Any word on Ubuntu and Python 2.7?

[Gabriel Noronha]

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Gabriel Noronha 
Access Grid Support Officer 
University of Newcastle 
>>> Christoph Willing <c.willing at uq.edu.au> 19/02/12 9:32 PM >>>

On 18/02/2012, at 4:08 AM, Kevin Cole wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I just added another machine to our "posse" / "harem" / "commune",  
>> and since it was a fresh install, I installed Oneiric (11.10).  And  
>> then, when things behaved oddly, I saw this on the University of  
>> Queensland's site:
>>
>> "Can't access ANL venue server. Actually, the connection is partial  
>> - connected venues are visible but media and jabber text services  
>> aren't started correctly. Interestingly, other venue servers, e.g.  
>> APAG, can be connected to OK. The issue appears to be related to the  
>> Python version being used in the client systems; up to python2.6  
>> appears OK, while python2.7 (on Oneiric, Natty & Fedora 14) have the  
>> connection problem."
>>
>> With a Long Term Support (LTS) release coming up in a couple of  
>> months, I was planning to upgrade all of my machines to that,  
>> including the AG3 computers that are currently doing fine.  Any  
>> details on what makes Python 2.7 not tick?  (I've got some stuff  
>> moving into the 3.x version. So, it seems 2.6 is getting a bit long  
>> in the tooth.)
>
>
>I believe the problem is in the jabber code - on entering a venue, one  
>of the VenueClient's tasks is to create and/or enter a jabber room  
>with the same name as the venue. This fails with python 2.7 (for some  
>reason) and prevents set up of the media tools, vic and rat.
>
>I've verified this on a python 2.7 system by disabling text chat  
>completely in the VenueClient.py and VenueCLientUI.py, after which I'm  
>able to fully enter previously troublesome venues.
>
>Although that appears to identify where the problem lies, the problem  
>still needs to be fixed - I'm not sure who has time to look at that.


I had a quick look at the jabber code because i was hoping to reuse it awhile ago... and basically it use a library that has been abandoned. bajjer is the library and a google search seems to lead to nothing but 404s 

it's probably something that really needs to be ear marked as needing a complete rewrite or swapping to a different protocol with better library support IRC for example.   

saying that with the picture in your first email i assumed you would be nothing but RHEL boxes..