[4suite] Installation problems - 2.0?

[Andy Gimblett]

Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> What was the problem under 1.52?  We haven't done any testing 
> with 2.0.

Oh, I just didn't have the xml-sig stuff installed. Then IIRC for
that I needed to install distutils, and then I just thought "what
the hell, I want to try 2.0 anyway". :)

> 4DOM.spec is an RPM spec file for building RPM packages.  ignore the
> %prep and %setup.  But really, all you need to do to set up 
> 4DOM is copy it to your PYTHONPATH.

Ah. Jolly good. Thanks for clearing that up.

> Doesn't it work if you just do a
> 
> mkdir /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/xml
> touch /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/xml/__init__.py
> cp -r 4dom-0.9.2 /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/xml
> mv /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/xml/4dom-0.9.2
> /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/xml/dom

No... BTW: 4dom-0.92? I extracted 4DOM-nodebug-0.10.2.tgz, which
created a directory called "xml" which had a single subdirectory
called "dom". In carrying out your instructions above, I used this
"dom" directory (which contains Element.py, Node.py, etc etc) where
you said 4dom-0.9.2 - correct?

> But wait a minute.  What do we do with xmlsig?  4DOM uses sax, which I
> understand is not in Python 2.0, (but not 1.6).  However, I'm 
> not aware of how to make those imports.

I think sax *is* in 2.0. At least, in my fresh 2.0 install I have this:

[root at andy xml]# pwd
/usr/local/lib/python2.0/xml

[root at andy xml]# ls
__init__.py  __init__.pyc  __init__.pyo  dom  sax

[root at andy xml]# ls sax
__init__.py     _exceptions.pyc  expatreader.pyo  saxutils.py
xmlreader.pyc
__init__.pyc    _exceptions.pyo  handler.py       saxutils.pyc
xmlreader.pyo
__init__.pyo    expatreader.py   handler.pyc      saxutils.pyo
_exceptions.py  expatreader.pyc  handler.pyo      xmlreader.py

> Can anyone at xml-sig help?
> 
> Note that the changes would go in
> /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/xml/dom/ext/reader

"the changes"? What changes?

> We'll help as much as we can.  Hopefully we'll have a chance 
> to try out Python 2.0 and add some instructions to our upcoming release.

That'd be great! Thanks very much...

Cheers,

Andy

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