Bug#630245: libmms: Libmms uses deprecated python function BaseException.message

[Wesley J. Landaker]

On Sunday, June 12, 2011 10:24:02 Mark Janssen wrote:
> mimms, when trying to access a MMS stream using libmms will abort with
> the following error:
> 
> $ mimms
> "mms://wm-ondemand01b.omroep.nl/public/ug-od/wm/3/media/wm3c1/vpro/44818
> 297/windowsmedia.asf?wmt=4df4e5b3\&wmhash=70edd5d5" Connecting ...libmms
> error:/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/libmimms/core.py:245:
> DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of
> Python 2.6 print >> sys.stderr, "libmms error:", e.message
> libmms connection error
> 
> It wil then immediately exit/fail.

There are two things happening here. One of them in a bug. The other might 
not be, but almost certainly isn't "grave":

1) libmms is returning "libmms connection error"

libmms apparently couldn't connect to that URL, and said as much 
("connection error"). I couldn't say why, but I doubt this is a grave bug 
unless libmms doesn't work with ANY mms URL, which I know isn't the case for 
me or most users.

2) mimms is printing it out with a deprecated python interface.

The deprecation problem is a bug in mimms (written in python), not libmms 
(written in C). It results in a warning message, and has nothing to do with 
mimms not working. This is a normal bug and should be fixed to eliminate the 
warning message, but is not severity "grave".
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