Re: [pcp] pmrep error on RHEL6.4 / python2.66

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [...]
> > 
> > This seems to be a common and known issue on such old python versions -
> > is it worth doing something about it?

(yes, definitely)

> It depends - RHEL 6's Python 2.6 gained OrderedDict in RHEL 6.5:
> 

PCP runs on many other platforms though, and it would be best to have pmrep
available on all supported platforms (incl. EPEL5, but also many other non-
Red Hat Linux distros, not to mention Mac OS X, *BSD and so on).

> So if we're adjusting things for RHEL 6 I think perhaps we could
> check whether OrderedDict is available but disabling pmrep altogether
> sounds a step too far IMHO.

Can we rearrange the code to not use an OrderedDict?  (e.g switch to a
regular dict, and arrange to have metrics sorted before displaying? -
there is lots of other (needed?) use of OrderedDict's though so I'm not
sure its that simple.

cheers.

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Nathan