[chirp_devel] chirp-py3 status?

[Charlie Li]

Matthew Poletiek via chirp_devel wrote:
> Anyone know what the current status of the py3 branch is?
> 
There was a small thread last month on this mailing list about it. A
quote from Dan himself:
> You're welcome to send me patches against the py3 branch if you want (please make them obvious), but I have to prioritize fixes and stuff on the main branch just out of respect to the 99.9% of users that it impacts.

tl;dr Dan's too busy to bother and he deems Flatpak good enough (at
least for Linux folks). Additionally, the amount of work and changes
needed cannot really be broken down into smaller commits that won't
break the build or runtime in the meantime, at least not conceptually.
> 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
> <https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/8475>) and everything seemed to work
> great!
> 
So has FreeBSD ports, in the quest to remove everything Python 2-only
(chiefly for CHIRP, pygtk2) before Python 2 itself gets removed by the
end of this month/year. Spoiler: I contributed the last update before it
was removed, despite another pending update I submitted based on the
existing py3 branch. Said pending update is only a stopgap, however.
> 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.
> 
It's more than a few driver iterations behind. Drivers are *the* sore
point in fully realising Python 3 support. Converting them to work in
Python 3 (apart from correcting syntax that would otherwise preclude
CHIRP from launching at all) involves far more than running 2to3.

Although there's a rudimentary wxPython 4 GUI in the py3 branch, it's
really incomplete compared to using pygobject's pygtk shim. And even
that has some issues with certain dialogs not working (import and export
come to mind), but at least it's better than wxPython 4 right now.

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Charlie Li
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