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@@ -29,14 +29,29 @@ upgrade. http://www.gnu.org - If you are building the Mailman 2.1 alpha releases, either through - the official file releases, or by checking out via CVS, you must - download and install the mimelib package. + Mailman 2.1 now requires the "email" package, which comes as part + of Python 2.2. If you are running an older version of Python, + then you need to install the standalone email package by doing the + following steps: - http://sf.net/projects/mimelib + % cd misc + % tar zxf email-0.90.tar.gz + % cd email-0.90 + % python setup.py install - Mailman 2.1alpha2 requires mimelib 0.4 or better. mimelib will - eventually be bundled with Mailman 2.1 and Python 2.2. + Check to make sure the email package is properly installed by + doing the following: + + % python + Python 2.1.1 (#1, Aug 31 2001, 17:07:00) + [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2 + Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. + >>> import email + >>> email.__version__ + '0.90' + + (Note that if you are using Python 2.2, email.__version__ will be + "1.0"; either version is fine.) 1. System setup |