[chirp_devel] chirp-py3 status?

[Matthew Poletiek]

Hi Everyone,

Anyone know what the current status of the py3 branch is?

Gentoo Linux has dropped this package from it's main repo due to lack of
movement, but I cloned this branch, made a few adjustments (
https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/8475) and everything seemed to work
great!

I'm assuming it's a few driver iterations behind the main branch, but it
would be really nice to get py3 moving since Python2 is practically EOL'ed.

If it helps others test a bit easier I created a fork of the py3 branch
with my patch already applied on github.
https://github.com/mpoletiek/py3-CHIRP

The documentation on how to contribute to the main project using Mercurial
was a bit out of date and went against recommendations being made to me in
the #mercurial IRC channel on Freenode.

I figured moving this to github might help get the ball moving again as
more and more developers prefer git and aren't very interested in anything
else.

I was planning on testing this in a few different linux environments and
windows 10 before New Years.

I'll definitely be using CHIRP for years to come, it's a great tool and
really helps lower the barrier to entry for HAMers who can't afford the
more expensive radio's & software. However, it's only getting more and more
difficult and frankly unwise to maintain a Python 2 environment on modern
systems.

I really appreciate all the work that's been put into this so far. I'd love
to help speed things up if I can.

Thanks,

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Matthew Poletiek
303.810.9082
matthew.poletiek at gmail.com
www.matthewpoletiek.com
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