Re: X server needed for agide --version?

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Aschwin Marsman wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> > Aschwin Marsman wrote:
> > 
> > > In order to automatically check for updates of aap en agide,
> > > I use aap --version and agide --version in a shell script.
> > > 
> > > No GUI is needed for both, but agide would like to make a
> > > connection to the GUI:
> > > 
> > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to change agide to get "agide --version" 
> > > working without a GUI?
> > 
> > The problem appears to be that simply importing the wxPython module
> > already makes the connection to the X server.
> > 
> > I would call this a problem in wxPython, it shouldn't do real work when
> > only importing the modules.
> 
> I agree.
>  
> > Avoiding this problem is tricky.  It requires postponing all imports
> > that use wxPython until after checking for --version.  But it can be
> > done!  Get version 0.119 when it's there (next week).
> 
> I will, it's a nice to have feature, I hope it doesn't obscure the code.

I just updated my versions and it's already solved, thanks for your
quick response:

Agide version 0.119, 2003 Sep 08
Using Aap version 1.026, 2003 Sep 08

> Have fun & a nice weekend,
>  
> Aschwin Marsman
 
Have fun,
 
Aschwin Marsman
 
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