[winswitch] xpra (client) on Centos 5.7

Bob Tennent rdtennent at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 17:40:25 GMT 2012


 >|>  >|Note: the in-the-works 0.1.0 release will drop support for old buggy
 >|>  >|versions of pygtk, this includes the one in CentOS 5.x, so soon
 >|would be
 >|>  >|a good time to upgrade..
 >|>
 >|Sigh... sorry not had time to test so you ended up being the guinea pig!
 >|
 >|http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.deque
 >|This is a python2.6 feature and I'm not sure how to make it all work
 >|with older versions of python without adding complexity to the code.
 >|
 >|And since the current code drops a number of workarounds for older
 >|versions of libraries, maybe now is a good time to say goodbye to
 >|python2.5...
 >|
 >|Sorry I can't be more helpful than this but I am trying to clean up the
 >|code so spending my time introducing workarounds for outdated binaries
 >|doesn't really fit :/

OK, thanks. I guess by "a good time to upgrade" you meant Centos; not
really feasible for some systems. Maybe it would help to separate the
client into a separate package.

Bob T.



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