On Jan 23, 7:49 pm, "Yi Qiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can comment on the python-gnutls issue. The problem is that the API
> for gnutls has changed and is NOT backwards compatible with the
> previous releases. Hence, python-gnutls will not work since it is
> simply a package that wraps the gnutls library and those wrappings
> were automatically generated by gcc-xml and py2xml. Below is the
> email I got from the python-gnutls author about what needs to be done
> to get python-gnutls to work.
Hi Yi,
thanks for tracking this down. I will try to get it to work as
described in the email.
Cheers,
Michael
> show details Jan 11 (12 days ago)
>
> Reply
>
> On Friday 11 January 2008, you wrote:
>
> > Hi Dan,
> > We've been using your python-gnutls wrappers for a while now for the
> > SAGE [1] project with great success. However we'd like to update to
> > the latest gnutls release (2.2.0 ATM) and I noticed that they've made
> > quite a few changes to the OpenPGP parts which causes
> > incompatibilities with the wrapper. Do you have any plans to update
> > python-gnutls to work with gnutls-2.2.0?
>
> I will when the distribution I use will have it packaged. Until then I
> stick with what I have since there is no reason for me to upgrade.
>
> Otherwise, openpgp is not really used, just made available. So unless you
> actively use the low level openpgp functions yourself it should not be a
> problem. Otherwise, you can regenerate the low level libraries yourself
> to match the latest gnutls. You just have to install the code generator
> fromhttp://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/(xml2py) and gcc-xml
> With them you can run make clean; make before you run setup.py build to
> regenerate the low level library files to match the latest gnutls header
> files.
>
> --
> Dan
>
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