On 10/11/2013 09:19 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> On 10/10/2013 06:56 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Steven J. Yellin
>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>
>>          Of course you want a Python 2.7 rpm, but if you can't find one,
>>     you can compile Python 2.7.5 from the tarball available via
>>     http://www.python.org/__download/ <http://www.python.org/download/> .
>>
>>     Steven Yellin
>>
>>
>> I've had to pull that kind of stunt to backport recent Subversion
>> releases to older OS's. I do *not* recommend it for a production
>> environment, because the Python is likely to be incompatible with other
>> utilities.
>>
>> http://rpm.pbone.net reveals that there are some "python27" packages
>> being published for SL 6 and its relatives, listed at:
>>
>> http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/SRPMS/
>>
>
> As I did not have any means to verify the integrity (lack of malware or
> other compromises) in the nux distribution, and aware of the above
> issues, I found the necessary RPMs from distributions that have
> community acceptance (e.g., Princeton) to allow the current BlueGriffon
> to build.  The build was successful (after taking well over 30 minutes
> and during much of this simultaneously peaking all four X86-64 cores of
> my workstation at over 90 percent load) and I will report separately on
> the actual usability of the final product -- have not had a chance to
> test and not at the workstation now.  I will separately list the actual
> RPMs that I had to download and install.
>
> I do not have the personnel resources to be able to be a maintainer of
> BlueGriffon for X86-64.  However, as I seem to have resolved the issues
> preventing a build, is there anyone or entity in the community willing
> to be a maintainer for EL6?
>
> Yasha Karant
>

Hi Yasha,

    Have you posted it anywhere for download?

-T

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