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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> On November 18, 2009, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Gavin Panella
>>
>> <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Henning and Graham this morning had segfault issues, and Brad did
>>> yesterday. Here's a workaround that Brad and I figured out yesterday
>>> that seems to work okay:
>>>
>>>  . ~/.rocketfuel-env.sh
>>>  cd $LP_SOURCEDEPS_PATH/twisted
>>>  bzr clean-tree --ignored --force
>>>  make PYTHON=python2.5
>>>
>>> The Twisted Makefile has python2.4 hardcoded. This is something we
>>> should fix. Anyone want to do that?
>> It's also hardcoded in bin/twistd. The Makefile and the modification
>> to twistd are both patches that we maintain on top of upstream
>> Twisted.
>>
>> For both twistd and the Makefile, I don't know enough about our setup
>> to say confidently whether we should use /usr/bin/python or python2.5
>> or something else. If someone lets me know, I'll happily land the
>> patch after UDS today (in 7+ hours from now). I'll even more happily
>> applaud whoever gets around to this before me :)
>>
> 
> Bonus tech-debt cookies for using twisted as an egg instead of the sourcecode 
> branch!

And updating to a recent release (possibly Twisted 9 which was released
about -7 days ago)!  Although I think that will break some tests...

Cheers,
mwh