[Mailman-Developers] Re: Error in scripts/driver?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "DC" == David Champion <dgc@uchicago.edu> writes:

    | Looks like line 121 of scripts/driver needs to say
    |         from Mailman.Version import VERSION
    | instead of
    |         from Mailman.mm_cfg import VERSION

    DC> I know enough python to club myself in the head, but I think I
    DC> hit this one because I had a bug (since resolved) in
    DC> Defaults.py.[1] If Defaults.py or mm_cfg.py have a traceback
    DC> error, this looks like it will come up.  By importing VERSION
    DC> explicitly as below, you at least can get the trace
    DC> informationon the _original_ problem.  If it's inherited from
    DC> Defaults.py, then you still get this problem.

    DC> [1] If you're curious, I modify Defaults.py to have a separate
    DC> data area from the mailman installation directory.

Please note that you should never edit Defaults.py.  Put all your site
configurations in mm_cfg.py, which will override the settings in
Defaults.py.

-Barry