[winswitch] xpra (client) on Centos 5.7

[Antoine Martin]

On 02/28/2012 12:40 AM, Bob Tennent wrote:
>  >|>  >|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|code so spending my time introducing workarounds for outdated binaries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;
Yes..

> not really feasible for some systems.
I know.. hence:

> Maybe it would help to separate the client into a separate package.
That wouldn't have helped, the code that uses python2.6 was both in the
client and server.

However... I've just committed a workaround which allows python2.5 to be
used again:
https://xpra.org/trac/changeset/553
Then a bunch of other fixes for CentOS's completely outdated version of
(Py)GTK in r554 to r558
Note: don't use CentOS as an Xpra server.

The updated beta packages are here:
https://xpra.org/beta/

And I've now actually tested that it runs OK on CentOS 5.x

Enjoy!
Antoine



> 
> Bob T.