Victor;
Excellent thank you. Makes sense. So I'll do this? hg clone http://bitbucket.org/chapmanb/galaxy-central
Along with using a 2.5 version of python to move on?
That sounds perfect. If you are upgrading Python, you'll want to go with Python 2.6, which is compatible with the available Galaxy eggs and has lots of the newer language features.
I updated to python 2.5 and got the same error. Any ideas?
The better fix would be in scripts/nglims/add_ng_defaults.py to make it Python 2.4 compatible. I think this just means replacing lines 51 and 52,
Yes, agreed. Apologies I didn't have a chance to do this last night. In addition to the with statement, I am also a big fan of conditional expressions. Victor, if you do 'hg pull' and 'hg update' on the forked repository you'll get a fixed version of the code that will run with python2.4. I tried to fix all of the incompatibility pieces, but if you find any remaining issues let me know. Thanks much, Brad