small python 2.4 compat fix and documentation

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index fbc9c7b4..1eb9607c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ http://south.aeracode.org/docs/installation.html
 Used for database schema and data migrations
 [sudo] easy_install South
 
+EXTRA DEPENDENCIES FOR PYTHON 2.4
+* hashlib (made standard in python 2.5)
+
 NOTES: django_authopenid is included into Askbot code
 and is significantly modified.  http://code.google.com/p/django-authopenid/
 no need to install this library
diff --git a/TODO.rst b/TODO.rst
index ba6dbdd2..f202a3f7 100644
--- a/TODO.rst
+++ b/TODO.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Code Cleanups
     inside forum app directory
   * one-by one convert "auto-discovery" modules into 
     regular explicit python imports
+* python2.4 incompatibilities
+  *  datatime.datetime.strptime
 
 Bugs
 ======
diff --git a/forum_modules/pgfulltext/management.py b/forum_modules/pgfulltext/management.py
index 487580ff..15ba3bd7 100644
--- a/forum_modules/pgfulltext/management.py
+++ b/forum_modules/pgfulltext/management.py
@@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ def install_pg_fts():
     f = open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'pg_fts_install.sql'), 'r')
     
     try:
-        cursor = connection.cursor()
-        cursor.execute(f.read())
-        transaction.commit_unless_managed()
-    except:
-        pass
+        try:
+            cursor = connection.cursor()
+            cursor.execute(f.read())
+            transaction.commit_unless_managed()
+        except:
+            pass
     finally:
         cursor.close()