[winswitch] Problems using xpra on CentOS 5

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Sat Sep 24 05:20:44 BST 2011


On 24/09/11 02:48, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 09/23/2011 12:15 AM, Antoine Martin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this, the problem was the "with" statement which is
>> not available before python 2.5. I have to admit that I very rarely test
>> on python2.4, so problems like this one are likely to re-occur. Sooner
>> or later, we'll just have to give up on old unmaintained versions of
>> python...
>>
>> I am pushing a new version with this fix and another worthwhile
>> improvement for applications with high window refresh rates. It will hit
>> the download area shortly.
> That was quick; thanks Antoine!
>
> I also had to install python-uuid (from EPEL) and python-imaging (from CentOS) packages to get xpra working. Could these be added as
> dependencies the next time you generate the CentOS 5 RPMs?
It's a bit annoying to have to add conditional cruft to the rpm specfile
just for old versions of CentOS, but I'll see what I can do.

Antoine



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