Trac/Python Headaches

A new Debian development server needed trac installed. I would rather use the new trac .11, but etch comes with .10 as a package so we used that.

The install is not that big of a deal. The biggest problem was that I upgraded to python 2.5 instead of stock 2.4 for debian, so clearsilver fails it - it does not know about 2.5 in it’s make files.

Following the advice here:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clearsilver/+bug/86685

I installed the newest clearsilver, and it stopped whinging about neo-cgi. But then it couldnt find the svn bindings because they are in python 2.4 site-packages. That is my one beef with python - I’m sure it’s site-packages is a good idea, but I have had a hard time wrapping my head around them pretty much anytime I have to deal with a Python stack.

Oh well. On this devel box, python 2.4 is fine. I’ll unlink python 2.5 and let it rot. The clearsilver hack was probably not needed anyway, and worrying about this anymore takes away from time actually using Trac.