Re: [Boa Constr] SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

[Bill B. <bi...@kg...>]

John,

The Mandrake 8.2 was the final release and I installed from the download 
version.  I have a couple years experience with them, subscribed to the 
'club' and my Boa difficulty was with 8.1 installed.

The 8.2 installer barfed on gcc, glade, glibc and setting the clock.  One of 
the dependencies was libc.so.6, serious indeed, and about 3 other libraries.
Oddly enough the betas looked pretty good.  The few additions in 8.2 are not 
worth the effort of tweaking the dependencies.

I was in the throes of upgrading when you suggested the file edit and now, of 
course, I can't get that far.  Since I have 8.1 on the shelf I'm going to 
reinstall it and try your change.  It appears that a test on z2.py would 
answer the question.

I have been scratching the dirt for 2+ years looking for a 'Boa Constructor' 
and certainly agree with your judgement of boa vs glade.  The glade 
consideration is that I have a very heavy C interpreter for a script of my 
own invention, done in DOS.  I have wrestled with what to do with that for at 
least as long as the gui search.  That's the price of resisting the strait 
jacket from Redmond.

BTW, Debian came up in more than just a fit pique.   Libranet's first release 
is the happiest experience I ever had with any distribution.  Great support 
and responsive people.  Unhappily, the debian system spends too much time in 
the backwater.

Thanks much for your suggestions.  Will get back.

Cheers,
-Bill


>
> Bill,
>
> Some suggestions:
>
> (1) I don't have a copy of Mandrake 8.2, so I don't
> know what the dependancy problems are, but:
>
>   (a) If you have python2.2 and are running the 0.1.1
> CVS version (which is what I take your previous
> comment on "the new version" to mean) then you have a
> good combination.  Even to 0.1.0 release looks OK with
> Python2.2 until you get well into it.
>
>   (b) Since Mandrake is an RPM based system it's
> trivial to upgrade around your dependancy problems.
> Just download the required RPM's from Mandrake if
> available, or if not look on the contrib directory of
> the RedHat site for a suitable RPM.  In the latter
> case it would probably be best to download the source
> RPM and do an rpm --rebuild on it first.  Not having
> used Mandrake in years, I'm not sure if there are
> directory architecture differences between them that
> will require patching, but I doubt it as in the past
> they used to follow RedHat's lead in this area.
>
>   (c) If you're thinking of changing Linux versions
> and are concerned about dependancy issues etc., may I
> suggest you go for the RedHat variant.  I certainly
> don't want to start a discussion on the relative
> merits of the different distributeions, but with
> RedHat being by a long margin the market leader you
> will generally find that most software is ready to run
> on this platform first.
>
> (2) Whilst I like Glade/PyGlade myself from an
> aesthetic point of view (an addiction to *IX
> minimalist solutions), I'd be disinclined to develop
> anything serious in it when there are products like
> Boa available.  You just don't get anything like the
> functionality or productivity available with the more
> advanced products.  As to the Win98 option, I guess
> that it's a matter of what your goals are.
>
> (3) Did you try out my previous suggestion re the
> <CR><LF> issue.  I can't remember for sure if this is
> the solution as it's ages since I ran into this issue.
>  If you've tried it with no luck, I'm happy to look
> further into it.  If you need more detailed info just
> let me know.
>
> Regards,
> John Bell
>
>