Re: [Gtkpod-devel] libgpod python3 bindings?

[Simon L. <sim...@gm...>]

Hi - resending this now I am a member of the group.


On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 12:37, Simon Lambourn <sim...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I have been a keen user of libgpod via the python2 bindings for several
> years.   Now Ubuntu 19.10 has deprecated python2 and it seems, removed
> gobject-2.0 support, the python bindings no longer work (for me at least).
> I've had a look at trying to re-build the swig interface files for python3
> but it seems I need to rebuild the whole of libgpod, and this is
> complaining about missing pre-requisites (probably gobject 2.0, although it
> says I am missing sqlite3, which is actually installed).   I was happy to
> try and learn swig, but rebuilding the whole thing is quite a long way
> outside my current skill level :-)
>
> I realise that libgpod hasn't been maintained for a few years, but I
> wonder if you can advise whether there's a relatively straightforward way
> to get this to work with python3?
> Or alternatively is there a compelling reason why it is extremely
> difficult to update to python 3?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> Simon
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> Simon Lambourn
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