[chirp_devel] Python 3 status

[Matthew Poletiek]

Hello,

I've made a public repo for a py3 version I use.

https://github.com/mpoletiek/py3-CHIRP/pulls

Hope it helps.

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On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 14:45 Dominick C. Pastore via chirp_devel <
chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> New to the mailing lists, but I've been trying to read up on the status
> of Python 3 support. I'm on Linux (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS), where Python 2 is
> no longer well-supported. The Flatpak version works alright, but I'm
> hoping to make some contributions to the VX-6R driver, so that means
> running from source.
>
> Anyway, a couple questions:
>
> 1. The main question is what is the status of this? Dan mentioned in
> 2019 that about half the drivers had been converted, and the bugtracker
> for #495 shows a bit more work since, but it (and the Py3 branch) hasn't
> been updated in quite a while. I saw some messages from certain
> individuals saying they've made some significant progress on their own
> (e.g.
> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_devel/2021-June/006397.html),
>
> but I'm guessing that's in private repos? I'm just not really sure
> what's going on. If there's still more work to be done, I'd like to
> help, because the legacy Python 2 dependencies are a royal pain.
>
> 2. I know Dan was working on rewriting the GUI to use wxPython since
> gtk2 wasn't ported to Python 3. Is that still part of the Python 3 plan?
> Is there still more work to be done there?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
> KW4XV
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