On Dec 31 2008, 9:54 pm, Mike Driscoll <kyoso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 31, 3:36 pm,lkcl<luke.leigh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > hiya mike: where do i know you from? i've heard your name somewhere > > and for the life of me can't remember where! anyway... onwards. > > I don't know...while your username looks vaguely familiar, I don't > think I've communicated with you recently. I spend most of my time on > the wxPython list now...
i think it might be from my old school - i could be confusing you with someone, though - "gary driscoll", perhaps? anyway, never mind :) > > testing: you should really use a debootstrap absolute "basic" > > environment (set up a chroot, or a virtual KVM or other virtual PC, > > qemu, whatever, or even a real machine) do NOT do a "full" install of > > ubuntu, do an absolute minimalist install (netbook, businesscard, > > whatever). > > I thought the general practice was to test on the closest software/ > hardware combo that your application was most likely to run on. that you should do as well :) you should be able to either upgrade the bare-bones version using "tasksel install desktop" or just... what-the-heck, install on a vanilla combo. http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ archive.ubuntu.com appears offline at the moment - maybe it'll be back later. i recommend you go for the mini.iso > I have > heard of doing testing on the lowest common denominator before though. > Unfortunately, I don't have time to set up a bare-bones VM since we're > closing soon, but I may give this a go on Friday and report back. ok - the issue that you will face if you _don't_ do a LCD test is that should ubuntu get upgraded, and one of the packages that _used_ to pull in a dependency [that you missed] no longer does so... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
