[chirp_devel] Python 3 status

[Nathan Deckinga]

Thank you for that, Matthew!  I assume your repo is mainly for
shared/personal use?

Nick - I'm also interested in helping get the official release over to
Python3.  So count me in as another resource.

-Nathan
KI5QLY

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 4:21 PM Matthew Poletiek via chirp_devel <
chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've made a public repo for a py3 version I use.
>
> https://github.com/mpoletiek/py3-CHIRP/pulls
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> - Sent From My Phone
>
> 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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