[Mailman-Developers] Mailman on NT

[Gianni Sandrucci]

I have read some messages about future Mailman NT release. Since I have
appreciated Mailman on a IBM AIX system I tried a porting test on NT
with following steps:

- installed Cygwin 2.0 (www.cygnus.com)
- installed Python for Windows with all Windows specific extension
- installed Mailman 1.0 b11
- made some minor changes in Mailmal files configure and src/Makefile.in

- after some fighting with permissions (I was forced to comment tests on
these matters in configuration script and C source code) succeded to
       ./configure --with-cgi-ext=.exe
      make install (no errors reported)
- configured  IIS to create a virtual site on /home/mailman named
mailman
- called: http://localhost/mailman/cgi-bin/admin.exe

Got an error (reported below). It seems Python is not able to locate
Mailman modules in /home/mailman/Mailman. However modules are there (in
py and pyc format). I tried to go up in erorrs chain but every time the
'driver' script try to import something from Mailman I got the same
error.  Since I know very little about Python I wonder if anybody can
help me.

Thanks.

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Bug in Mailman version <undetermined>

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Traceback:


Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 135, in print_traceback
    from Mailman.mm_cfg import VERSION
ImportError: No module named Mailman.mm_cfg




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Environment variables:
Variable Value
USERPROFILE  C:\WINNT\Profiles\Default User
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING  gzip, deflate
REMOTE_HOST  127.0.0.1
HTTPS  off
OS2LIBPATH  C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
SERVER_PORT_SECURE  0
SERVER_PORT  80
PATH_TRANSLATED  C:\Inetpub\wwwroot
PROCESSOR_LEVEL  6
GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1
INSTANCE_ID  1
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS  1
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE  en-us
PATH
c:\agora\servletmanager\jrun\bin;c:\agora\servletmanager\jrun\jre\115\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\Program
Files\Mts
SYSTEMDRIVE  C:
PATHEXT  .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.JS
SERVER_NAME  localhost
HTTP_CONNECTION  Keep-Alive
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE  x86
TERM  cygwin
WINDIR  C:\WINNT
HTTP_ACCEPT  image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword,
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, */*
COMPUTERNAME  SVIL4
INCLUDE  C:\Program Files\Mts\Include
SYSTEMROOT  C:\WINNT
SERVER_PROTOCOL  HTTP/1.1
PROCESSOR_REVISION  0502
CONTENT_LENGTH  0
HTTP_HOST  localhost
REQUEST_METHOD  GET
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER  x86 Family 6 Model 5 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel
PYTHONPATH  /home/mailman
LOCAL_ADDR  127.0.0.1
SCRIPT_NAME  /mailman/cgi-bin/admin.exe
SERVER_SOFTWARE  Microsoft-IIS/4.0
HTTP_USER_AGENT  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)
OS  Windows_NT
LIB  C:\Program Files\Mts\Lib
COMSPEC  C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
REMOTE_ADDR  127.0.0.1
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ [----- Mailman Version:
<undetermined> -----] [----- Traceback ------] Traceback (innermost
last): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 135, in print_traceback
from Mailman.mm_cfg import VERSION ImportError: No module named
Mailman.mm_cfg [----- Environment Variables -----] USERPROFILE:
C:\WINNT\Profiles\Default User HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
REMOTE_HOST: 127.0.0.1 HTTPS: off OS2LIBPATH: C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
SERVER_PORT_SECURE: 0 SERVER_PORT: 80 PATH_TRANSLATED:
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot PROCESSOR_LEVEL: 6 GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
INSTANCE_ID: 1 NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS: 1 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us PATH:
c:\agora\servletmanager\jrun\bin;c:\agora\servletmanager\jrun\jre\115\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\Program
Files\Mts SYSTEMDRIVE: C: PATHEXT: .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.JS
SERVER_NAME: localhost HTTP_CONNECTION: Keep-Alive
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE: x86 TERM: cygwin WINDIR: C:\WINNT HTTP_ACCEPT:
image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword,
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, */* COMPUTERNAME: SVIL4 INCLUDE:
C:\Program Files\Mts\Include SYSTEMROOT: C:\WINNT SERVER_PROTOCOL:
HTTP/1.1 PROCESSOR_REVISION: 0502 CONTENT_LENGTH: 0 HTTP_HOST: localhost
REQUEST_METHOD: GET PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER: x86 Family 6 Model 5 Stepping
2, GenuineIntel PYTHONPATH: /home/mailman LOCAL_ADDR: 127.0.0.1
SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/cgi-bin/admin.exe SERVER_SOFTWARE:
Microsoft-IIS/4.0 HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01;
Windows NT) OS: Windows_NT LIB: C:\Program Files\Mts\Lib COMSPEC:
C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe REMOTE_ADDR: 127.0.0.1