From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>,
The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cant install Cygwin Virt-manager that asks for library that asks for python2
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 14:02:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e1b26bd7-0709-4971-ada7-18a38e46540a@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+kUOam2Z=xj6ZofyoSxWzSqaiky2TCXVQwmARFdR7tj3miurw@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/11/2023 09:46, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 06:33, Bill Sharp via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 at 22:58, Jānis Ķengurs via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>[...]
>>
>> Python2 was removed in July, and per Jon's announcement it was expected
>> this would break some orphaned packages:
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2023-July/011186.html
>
> And having just had a look, it's not going to be straightforward to
> release virt-manager for Python3: it has several dependencies,
> including Gtk3, that are themselves not currently available for
> Cygwin.
I'm sure there are difficulties, but we do have gtk3 (although it might
also need updating...)
> Volunteers to get that working would likely be well received! Package
> maintainer basics are at http://www.cygwin.com/packages.html, although
> I expect the key job would be getting the current code building on
> Cygwin; once it's built and working, the packaging steps are much more
> straightforward…
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-03 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-31 22:58 Jānis Ķengurs
2023-11-01 6:32 ` Bill Sharp
2023-11-01 9:46 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2023-11-03 14:02 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2023-11-04 9:54 ` Jānis Ķengurs
2023-11-04 10:34 ` Bill Sharp
2023-11-04 13:19 ` Jānis Ķengurs
2023-11-06 15:49 ` Brian Inglis
2023-11-06 16:11 ` Jānis Ķengurs
2023-11-06 16:26 ` Eliot Moss
2023-11-06 18:03 ` Brian Inglis
2023-11-07 11:04 ` Jānis Ķengurs
2023-11-06 17:09 ` Andrey Repin
2023-12-01 22:43 ` Jānis Ķengurs
2023-12-01 22:45 ` Jānis Ķengurs
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