[GRASS-dev] build errors in trunk with make -j 4

[Anne Ghisla]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> In fact, the problem is even a new one:
>
>>     class Controller():
>>                      ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>> [neteler at xblade14 v.krige]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/python
>> python-2.4.3-8.FC4
>>
>> Python too old? It will be hard to update on that server.
>
> That syntax (new style class with no base classes) was introduced in
> Python 2.5. I doubt that it's actually necessary; it could probably be
> changed to either an old-style class:
>
>     class Controller:
>
> or a new-style class derived from "object":
>
>     class Controller(object):
>
> I think that we should still try to support 2.4, although the only way
> that accidental use of 2.5/2.6 features will be found is through
> running the code for real. Using new syntax features will cause
> --html-description to fail (as happened here), but using new
> functions, modules, classes, methods, etc won't.

Done in r40447. Thanks for pointing that out, hope it is solved now.
class Log in the GUI already used old-style class syntax, so I
chose the same for Controller.

regards,
Anne

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