[Fontforge-devel] Patches for Python 3

[Barry S. <che...@ch...>]

Attached are patches to make fontforge work with python 3 (which is
highly incompatible with python 2). I've only set it up for Gentoo or
similar OSes. Also there needs to be more work done in converting
python.c to use unicode strings where necessary, but we can get those
later. I've done enough of them already that I can run a bunch of
scripts I use. :) They can be found by examination but I don't feel
like doing that right now; and to test some of my other fontforge
scripts I'll need to port other packages first (or in some cases wait
for new versions).

In the attached tarball there are:

* A patch to C code, which should be applied with "patch -Np0",

* A patch to setup.py.in, applied with "patch -Np1"

* A patch to configure.dynamic.in, applied with "patch -Np1"

I'm not sure how all the *.in stuff is supposed to be packaged. :)

(In place of the hooks used for the python2 extension, I have symbolic
links to or copies of libfontforge.so. I imagine that symlinks allow
an OS to keep just one copy of the library in memory, but that's
outside my sphere of knowledge.)