Re: [Orbit-python-list] Undefined Symbol POAManager_PyObject_Type

[Christian R. R. <ki...@as...>]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Jade Meskill wrote:

> > > Hrm... I must've missed that posting. :( I will take another look
> > > and see if I can recommend a patch to debian also.  Do you know if
> > > this has been fixed in later versions of Python (1.6 or 2.0)?

Ok, lucky I caught this this week :-)

The issue is that Python should _not_ use RTLD_GLOBAL, since it does (if I
may) namespace-pollution (ok, ok). Fix is

a) Patch Python (oh, yes, lovely). It's easy and it's stupid and it's what
I did. If you need to release stuff then I would definitely cry about
it. Stuff will work on RH, of course.

b) Fix orbit-python. Perhaps this sound harsh, but it's true: orbit-python
needs to get some work done if it's to be used in a large
application. I've been stumped on many little issues over it and I've
considered learning Python modules and Orbit just to get it working. I
just haven't got the time lately, it seems, and neither has Jason,
unfortunately.

I'm still considering it because of (check next post: bug)

Take care,
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