[Pythondialog-users] pythondialog 3.5.1 released; EoL for the Python 2 backport

[Florent R. <f.r...@fr...>]

Dear users,

I have released pythondialog 3.5.1. The main change is that the
packaging now uses setuptools instead of distutils, which allows us to
provide pythondialog in wheel format[1]. If you installed using the
recommended method (pip), nothing should change for you, as pip should
always be able to install wheels. Two other changes may warrant your
attention:

  - In case you run a pythondialog-based program with the PATH variable
    unset in the environment (which I hope is very unlikely), you should
    read the explanations for version 3.5.1 on the news page[2] and
    probably upgrade (and/or define a sane PATH variable in your
    environment, or use an absolute path for the 'dialog' argument of
    the Dialog constructor).

  - I have released the Python 2 backport[3] with all these changes
    (setuptools-based packaging + change in the default used when PATH
    is unset), but this will most probably be the last release of this
    backport. Python 2 itself reaching its end of life on January 1,
    2020,[4] the Python 2 backport of pythondialog is now unsupported.

That's all, folks!

Regards

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/
[2] http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/news.html#3.5
[3] https://pypi.org/project/python2-pythondialog/
[4] https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

-- 
Florent