Save Config fix is lost in python 2.6

[Stella]

We used txLoadBalancer-1.1.0.patched-py2.4 and recently switched to python 2.6.
Our current txlb version does not have Jehiah's change for saving config. Is there any download-able patched python 2.6 txlb version ?
Thanks.

[Duncan McGreggor (oubiwann)]

Stella, thanks for the bug report. I've set this to high-priority, and will do the followig:

1) produce a new release of txLoadBalancer.

2) Provide Python 2.6 compatibility.

I don't currently have 2.6 installed on my system, so I will get that built and setup. Then I'll take txLB through the 2.6 paces and get changes merged to trunk that support it.

At which point I will cut a new release.

[Duncan McGreggor (oubiwann)]

In case this is of any use to folks, here's what I did to run txLB on Python2.6:
 * Install Pyton2.6
 * Install setuptools
 * sudo easy_install-2.6 zope.interface
 * sudo easy_install-2.6 pycrypto
 * bzr branch lp:pyopenssl && cd pyopenssl && sudo /usr/local/bin/python2.6 setup.py install
 * Install the latest release of Twisted
 * bzr branch lp:txloadbalancer && cd txloadbalancer && /usr/local/bin/python2.6 setup.py build
 * /usr/local/bin/twistd -noy ./bin/txlb.tac

With this process, everything that txLB needs to run seems like it got installed. There are a couple warnings, but those can be ignored (regardless, I will be updating the code so that those don't appear).

As such, txLB seems to be Python2.6 ready.

Stella, can you paste a comment with whatever errors you were getting with your version of txLB and the Python you were using?

Thanks!

[Duncan McGreggor (oubiwann)]

I take it back: the only warning I'm seeing is from pycrypto. So far, I haven't come across anything Python2.6-specific that needs fixing... the admittedly light test suite also runs without errors or warnings under Python2.6.

So, it seems that if there ever was a problem with Python2.6 and txLB, patches have already been applied to trunk (that's what I'm testing against).

Stella, I'll wait a few days to hear from you. If I don't, I'll just go ahead and make a new release.

Thanks!

[Duncan McGreggor (oubiwann)]

Okay, the code is prepped for release 1.2.0. All the latest changes (mostly docs) have been pushed to trunk on Launchpad.

[Stella (skazansk)]

Duncan, thank you so much for the quick response! I'll download the new release.

The warnings we are having are (but it's still running):
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/twisted/persisted/sob.py:12: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import os, md5, sys
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/twisted/python/filepath.py:12: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha

[Duncan McGreggor (oubiwann)]

Stella wrote:
> Duncan, thank you so much for the quick response! I'll download the new
> release.
>
> The warnings we are having are (but it's still running):
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/twisted/persisted/sob.py:12: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
> import os, md5, sys
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/twisted/python/filepath.py:12: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
> import sha
>

Ah, yes -- these warnings are from Twisted itself. Sadly, it's not a bug
that I can fix :-(

But, the good news is that these are warnings and won't affect the
running of your code.

d

[Stella (skazansk)]

Duncan, sorry I cant' find the download-able txloadbalancer 1.2 release