[Ns-developers] Bug 538 solution

[Tom Henderson]

Faker Moatamri wrote:
> Tom Henderson wrote:
>> Faker.Moatamri at sophia.inria.fr wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> Please find attached the loc_info.py that solves the bug 538. It allows
>>> the display and generation of post script graph that can be used as a
>>> cronjob to generate automatically the graph on the first page of
>>> www.nsnam.org.
>>> For usage and options you just execute : locinfo.py -h.
>>> I recommand the following usage:
>>> locinfo.py -r /path/to/local/repository -o /path/to/psfile -n
>>> -n option will prevent it from displaying the graph and will only 
>>> generate
>>> the file.
>>> Best regards
>>> Faker
>> =
>> Faker,
>> Thanks for doing this, but in the past (and also even now) I can not 
>> run this program successfully on any of the machines I test it on.
>>
>> For instance, on www.nsnam.org
>>
>> tomh at nsnam ~]$ ./locinfo.py -h
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "./locinfo.py", line 8, in <module>
>>     from mercurial import error
>> ImportError: cannot import name error
>>
>> Can you get it to run on www.nsnam.org?
>>
>> - Tom
> Hello,
> Well this program needs two modules at least to be installed for python: 
> mercurial module and gnuplot-py module.
> Download and install on the machine gnuplot:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17434
> Download and install mercurial python support:
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Mercurial

I think you may be suggesting that perhaps the default mercurial package 
installation lacks enough python support; presently, there is a 
mercurial 1.1.1 package installed.  If so, we can try to install 
mercurial from source.

> I think I don't have access to www.nsnam.org.

it is the same as code.nsnam.org

Regards,
Tom