[scribus-dev] 1.5.6svn and Python3

[Gregory Pittman]

On 11/2/19 7:01 PM, Owen wrote:
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>> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2019 at 7:44 AM
>> From: "Craig Bradney" <cbradney at scribus.info>
>> To: "Scribus Development Mailing List" <scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net>
>> Subject: Re: [scribus-dev] 1.5.6svn and Python3
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>> Hi Greg
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>> Thats one of the changes in Python 3… 
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>> why “fortunately”? python2 is dead. We no longer support it with 1.5.x and future versions.
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> I am confused. just tried compiling 23312, the cmake found python2.7. I thought it may look for python3.x
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> On this latest Ubuntu, needed to link everything in /usr/include/python2.7 back to /usr/include, but it failed towards the end, complaining about PyUnicode_AsUTF8
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> Google led me to believe python3 was needed.
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> So guess at this stage, my question is, are we meant to be compiling against python3.x and if so why does cmake pickup python2.7
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> Will have a go on Fedora
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Hi Owen,

When I tried 23311, Scribus complained of missing python3 with cmake, so I added python3-devel (this is on Fedora 30) and everything went Ok then.

I just ran cmake on 23312, and cmake said (among other things):

Python 3.x Library Found OK (Version 3.7.4)

Greg