[chirp_devel] Is anyone running chirp on Python 3?

[Leam Hall]

 From a "new guy" perspective, I see two major questions. First, using mercurial is a barrier since a lot of developers are on GitHub or GitLab. The Chirp Developer page has a lot of info, so that should be doable. I'm not sure if the Gmail from Mercurial instructions are up to date, since Gmail has borked...err...changed their stuff yet again.

The other question, and maybe I'm reading between the wrong lines, is that there's a sense of "meh". Python 3 has been out for a while; Joe mentioned the lack of direction, Nick isn't confident that it's worth the effort to document the needs. What's the general feeling about continuing as is or building to new things?

Leam

On 6/24/22 09:33, Dominick C. Pastore via chirp_devel wrote:
> It seems like we get a question about the status of the Python 3 conversion and what work is left every month or two. I wonder if it would be useful to put together some sort of Py3 TODO list, both for people who are curious and for people who want to help but don't know where it's needed. I'm not sure how much work that would be to put together, or if it would be worth it.
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022, at 9:10 AM, Joe Pizzi via chirp_devel wrote:
>> The challenge, in my opinion, is that not only is it changing from Python 2
>> to Python 3, but it is changing from gtk to wxPython, because gtk also had
>> some incompatible change.
>>
>> Joe Pizzi
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> chirp_devel
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>> Subject: Re: [chirp_devel] Is anyone running chirp on Python 3?
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I don't mean to sound like a know it all; I'm pretty sure I know very
>> little. It looks like the project is still active, and folks are
>> contributing. A local used it to load up my radio yesterday, I'm new-ish to
>> the area and still had the old repeaters programmed in. Pretty sure my
>> little Baofeng can't reach half way across the country, to the old
>> repeaters. *sigh*
>>
>> What's the challenge with moving to Python 3? What is holding things at
>> Python 2?
>>
>> Leam
>>
>>
>> On 6/23/22 20:44, Joe Pizzi wrote:
>>> Lack of time, focus, direction. At least on my part.
>>>
>>> Joe Pizzi
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: chirp_devel-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com
>>> <chirp_devel-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com> On Behalf Of Leam Hall via
>>> chirp_devel
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 8:08 PM
>>> To: chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com
>>> Subject: Re: [chirp_devel] Is anyone running chirp on Python 3?
>>>
>>> Hey Joe,
>>>
>>> Is the "not complete" due to lack of time, or...? I can do some Python, if
>>> that helps.
>>>
>>> Leam
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/23/22 19:07, Joe Pizzi wrote:
>>>> There is a python 3 branch that fixes those kinds of errors. It is not
>>>> complete, however.
>>>>
>>>> Joe Pizzi
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: chirp_devel-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com
>>>> <chirp_devel-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com> On Behalf Of Leam Hall via
>>>> chirp_devel
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 5:50 AM
>>>> To: chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com
>>>> Subject: [chirp_devel] Is anyone running chirp on Python 3?
>>>>
>>>> I'm getting a lot of syntax errors on "except Exception, e:" and issues
>>> with
>>>> print statements. Running Python 3.10 on Void Linux.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Leam
>>>
>>
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