[Develop] Miro Under Gentoo Problems

[Ben Dean-Kawamura]

I think I remember seeing that bug when I built Miro using python2.4, then
tried to rebuild it again under python2.5 but without clearing the pyrex code.
But, I could be making that up...

Ben

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:14:15AM -0500, will wrote:
> The traceback is this:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/miro/app.py", line 111, in wrapped
> func(*args, **kwargs)
> File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/miro/app.py", line 697, in 
> checkMoviesDirectoryGone
> if not self.moviesDirectoryGone():
> File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/miro/app.py", line 900, in 
> moviesDirectoryGone
> for downloader in views.remoteDownloads:
> File "database.pyx", line 531, in database.DynamicDatabase.next
> TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not type
> 
> I've seen that TypeError a couple of times over the last month when 
> skimming through bugs and talking to people.  Does Miro require a 
> specific version of Pyrex?
> 
> /will
> 
> 
> Paul Widmer wrote:
> > I have been trying to nail down the installation process for installing Miro
> > on Gentoo on an embedded PowerPC platform.  I've got Miro installed, but
> > then I hit on an error with Miro that I can't figure out and it's looking
> > like there are other users that are hitting on this.  Even if you haven't
> > used Miro with Gentoo, I was wondering if you might be able to help me out
> > with this, and point me in the direction of what might be going wrong.  Are
> > there certain options that Python needs to be compiled with to support Miro?
> > 
> > Here are the errors posted on the Miro forums:
> > http://www.getmiro.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=381&page=1#Item_4
> > 
> > Here are the errors on the bottom of the Gentoo bugs page:
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131527
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -Regards Paul (pwidmer, pwiddy)
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