Re: Re: [crossfire] Is the deposit bug on the bank PY= script ever going to get fixed?

Mon Feb 21 19:04:18 CST 2005

Of course you can try to fudge it, - there was mention made of changing your environment variables - you could probably tweek a crossfire user to have libraries elsewhere without messing up your system python - also when Sarge becomes law then the problem is solved (for debian, for now), however I still think that making the config script more flexable so you can build off your chosen installed python would be a good thing.

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      > Unless you can get crossfire to build the plugin against python 2.2+ headers 

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      > then you are like me stuck.  I won't update debian just to playtest crossifre 

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      > and so far no one has made a patch to the configure scripts that lets you use 

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      > alternate python installation so it may be a while.  Once that is all fixed 

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      > up however getting the scripts (bank and slots) to work again should be a 

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      > piece of cake.

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      What about a minimalist environment under a chroot to run Crossfire?  That 

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      way you could install a later version of python without messing with 

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      anything else.

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      Rob

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