[scribus] Scribus 1.5.6.svn, scripter and Python 3

[Craig Bradney]

Hi Martin

They are on sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-svn/1.5.6.svn/

I’ll ask Jean to get a newer build there though as the last one looks to be dated end of March.

Craig

> On 8 Apr 2020, at 7:16 pm, ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear List,
> 
> we are using the "mail merge tool" Scribus Generator for production. A few years ago I wrote a fork with one added feature which is of little interest to others. (My idea to "allow a choice of custom CSV-delimiter" has made it into the main branch of Scribus Generator, so I hope I am not at odds with community ethics.)
> 
> I believe now is a good moment to update my script for Python3, since I find a template on the Scribus Generator Github project.
> 
> 
> Please do not get angry, but it would help me, if there were SVN builds out there for Windows 10 64bit.
> 
> I am stuck in Germany, far away from my main office and have no access to any Linux machine (and no spare computers lying around either). But I can find more time now than otherwise.
> 
> 
> If there are no ready builds, I found this page for instructions on the wiki
> https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Building_SVN_versions_on_Windows
> 
> 
> but this mentioned file   /trunk/Scribus/BUILDING_win32_msvc.txt
> looks somewhat outdated to me (no criticism, just an observation)
> 
> 
> So never having built on Windows (and only a few times on Linux), and mainly just wanting to update my script, I am hoping for either a recent Windows-build, which is ready for testing Python3 scripts, as mentioned by Jean (see below) or maybe some pointers (or notes) by people who have some experience with the Windows context for building.
> 
> Thanks for your input,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 27.10.2019 14:28, Jean Ghali wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Python 2 will soon be out of support and some distros have already started the process
>> which will lead to the removal of Python 2 packages from their repositories.
>> This took some time, but Scribus scripter has now been ported to Python 3 which means
>> that Scribus 1.5.6.svn now depends on Python 3 packages. Those of you using Ubuntu or
>> Debian derived distributions and compiling Scribus by their own will want to install the
>> python3-dev package in order to continue to do so. It is also recommended to install the
>> python3-tk package.
>> This changes will break lots of existing scripts due to differences between the Python 2
>> and Python 3 languages. Those of you relying on scripts for their tasks and using PPAs for
>> getting 1.5.6.svn images may want to delay further updates and use AppImages in order to
>> port their scripts to Python 3.
>> The AppImage generation process might be broken at this point tho. However if it is, it will
>> be fixed quickly.
>> Jean
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