this is interesting.... as I was going to ask when we would work on being
2.6 compatible (since I started looking at parsers,  and may have other
interests in potentially using 2.6+ only things).

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:05 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:

>
> There is a python 2.5 requirement mostly because that is what I
> tested.
>
> This looks like a bug in the tar module that ships with 2.6.1.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Apr 14, 10:04 pm, John <ponti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is reproducible (at least on my machine).
> >
> > Same problem with Firefox 3 and Safari 4beta.  The tar file placed in
> > web2py/deposit exhibits the same problem as the file that is
> > downloaded.  Both files are identical as verified by md5 checksums, so
> > it is not happing during the transfer, but with I am guessing the tar
> > function.
> >
> > Switching over to the windows side, after setting up my app
> > "manually", I am able to pack, and then verify the tar.  No problems.
> >
> > Time passes...and I get an idea while writing this response.
> >
> > Looking like the problem is on the mac side I decided to check a
> > couple things.  Turns out I am running Python 2.6.1 (from macports and
> > running web2py from source).  If I use the "default" python 2.5.1, my
> > tar problem goes away.
> >
> > It looks like a Python v2.6.1 vs v2.5.1 that causes this issue.  Is
> > there a Python 2.5 requirement for web2py, or is this a version
> > difference bug?
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Apr 14, 10:22 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Is this reproducible? Does the browser make a difference?
> > > Can you try delete everything under web2py/deposit and try again?
> >
> > > Massimo
> >
> > > On Apr 14, 7:58 pm, John <ponti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > I have been experiencing some issues with "pack all", and attempting
> > > > to deploy an app on a different web2py instance.
> >
> > > > Long version: (for others that might be experiencing the same thing)
> > > > My dev machine is a mac and the other test bed box is a windows vm
> > > > (not that it matters).  I was seeing some odd behavior on the windows
> > > > side after an import of my app, namely none of my jQuery stuff was
> > > > working.  Firebug was complaining about jQuery, so I verified that I
> > > > could infact get to the jquery.js through the browser.  My next
> > > > thought was that something was up with the web2py_ajax.html.  I was
> > > > right, though not like I was thinking.  Turns out the the file was
> > > > empty (zero bytes).
> >
> > > > I go back to the mac side, and test the tar file generate by pack.
> > > > Tar was not happy with the archive, in fact it stopped with
> > > > web2py_ajax.html
> >
> > > > galt:Downloads john$ tar -tvf web2py.app.wammo.tar
> > > > drwxr-xr-x john/staff        0 2009-04-14 18:49:29 ./
> > > > ....
> > > > lots of files/dirs
> >
> > > > -rw-r--r-- john/staff     2098 2009-04-14 18:23:18 views/layout.html
> > > > -rw-r--r-- john/staff     2243 2009-04-05 17:16:53 views/
> > > > web2py_ajax.html
> > > > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> > > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> >
> > > > For what it is worth, it always seems to die with that same file.
> > > > Also, the 'pack compiled' does not seem to exhibit the same problem.
> > > > At least, it my few tests I seem to get a clean tar each time.
> >
> > > > I am running the web2py 1.61 (I also was seeing this in a previous
> > > > version 1.57 IIRC, but didn't take the time to investigate)
> >
>

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