[Buildbot-devel] win32 buildslave using python 2.5?

[dustin at zmanda.com]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:53:08PM -0500, Andrew Webster wrote:
>      Just wondering if anyone else has seen this and fixed it?  I see the
>    release notes for buildbot 0.7.5 says only python2.4 is supported.  I
>    can probably re-install python 2.4 and get buildbot working again so
>    it isn't a big deal.  I was just hoping someone had run into this
>    problem who was smarter than me & had a fix for it. :)
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>      File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\buildbot\scripts\startup.py", line 114, in launch
>        from twisted.scripts.twistw import run
>    ImportError: No module named twistw

>From a quick look, it seems that the problem is actually buildbot's
compatibility with twisted, rather than a python 2.5 problem.  Perhaps
you could try installing the same version of twisted as you had
installed before?

2.5 did change the import mechanism (specifically, adding relative
imports), but this was done in a backward-comptaible fashion that
shouldn't cause problems like this.

Dustin

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        Dustin J. Mitchell
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