R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@amin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>amin</span></a></span></p><p>Eh...</p><p>It's a rolling release, so it's got that going for it, but a lot/most of their custom utilities (such as the package manager) is still on Python 2, which is... <em>not</em> good.</p><p><code>/usr/bin/python</code> is even a symlink to <code>python2</code> which is <strong>really</strong> not good.</p><p>Small team. Looks like the original dev, who started a new distro, is going to re-work a lot of those things, which will be the basis for Solus going forward, so there's a lot of hope for newer and better utilities.</p><p>To be clear, my only real complaint so far is the python2-ness of it.</p><p>Also, they don't have a <code>ksh</code> package (which some of my scripts require), but I managed to compile the standard ksh2020.</p><p>I don't know if I will stay. <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/python2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python2</span></a> is kind of a deal-breaker.</p><p>Still slowly replicating my <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/plasma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plasma</span></a> setup from my work <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> box. I have a lot of custom keybinds that make it a <em>little</em> more like i3/sway for me.</p><p>My other options are Debian testing, <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> (probably will lose the ability to run KSP), or <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/opensuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSuSE</span></a> tumbleweed (if they can ever just enable polkit by default, already).</p>
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IT News<p>PyOBD Gets Python3 Upgrades - One of the best things about open source software is that, instead of being lost t... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/09/17/pyobd-gets-python3-upgrades/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2023/09/17/pyobd-</span><span class="invisible">gets-python3-upgrades/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/softwarehacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwarehacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a>-obd <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/python2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python2</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/python3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python3</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vehicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vehicle</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/elm327" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elm327</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pyobd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pyobd</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/obd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obd</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://home.social/@lolzac" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lolzac</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dmnelson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dmnelson</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@scriptingosx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scriptingosx</span></a></span> Yes, but <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> has been slowly making good on the deprecations announced in <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Catalina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Catalina</span></a> (2019): <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-catalina-10_15-release-notes#Scripting-Language-Runtimes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developer.apple.com/documentat</span><span class="invisible">ion/macos-release-notes/macos-catalina-10_15-release-notes#Scripting-Language-Runtimes</span></a></p><p>• Deprecated <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> 2 in <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Monterey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monterey</span></a> and quietly removed <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/PHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PHP</span></a> (2021): <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-12_0_1-release-notes#Python" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developer.apple.com/documentat</span><span class="invisible">ion/macos-release-notes/macos-12_0_1-release-notes#Python</span></a><br>• Completely removed <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Python2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python2</span></a> in Monterey 12.3 (2022): <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-12_3-release-notes/#Python" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developer.apple.com/documentat</span><span class="invisible">ion/macos-release-notes/macos-12_3-release-notes/#Python</span></a><br>• With <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Ventura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ventura</span></a> (2022), running `python3` prompts you to install the <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Xcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xcode</span></a> Command Line Tools to get it. It's not part of the core <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> anymore.</p><p>The writing's on the wall.</p>
xenos 🐧🇵🇭<p>i wrote python2 utilities that read and write binary files from WWIV, various data files and wwivnet packets. converting these to python3 is a challenge because of differences in handling of string and binary between python2 and python3. i found it much easier in python2.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/python2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python2</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/python3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python3</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WWIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWIV</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WWIVDEV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWIVDEV</span></a></p>
Rich Johnson<p>Anyone ever convert to a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/python3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python3</span></a> project from a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/python2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python2</span></a> project that was using PyXML -> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxml/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sourceforge.net/projects/pyxml</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a> <- Gotta try & figure out how & where to convert some <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOM</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mutation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mutation</span></a> hocus pocus scurflootery. Who wants to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> with me 😂</p>
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