[scribus] Scribus 1.5.6.svn, scripter and Python 3

[ZASKE Martin]

Dear List,

we are using the "mail merge tool" Scribus Generator for production. A 
few years ago I wrote a fork with one added feature which is of little 
interest to others. (My idea to "allow a choice of custom CSV-delimiter" 
has made it into the main branch of Scribus Generator, so I hope I am 
not at odds with community ethics.)

I believe now is a good moment to update my script for Python3, since I 
find a template on the Scribus Generator Github project.


Please do not get angry, but it would help me, if there were SVN builds 
out there for Windows 10 64bit.

I am stuck in Germany, far away from my main office and have no access 
to any Linux machine (and no spare computers lying around either). But I 
can find more time now than otherwise.


If there are no ready builds, I found this page for instructions on the wiki
https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Building_SVN_versions_on_Windows


but this mentioned file   /trunk/Scribus/BUILDING_win32_msvc.txt
looks somewhat outdated to me (no criticism, just an observation)


So never having built on Windows (and only a few times on Linux), and 
mainly just wanting to update my script, I am hoping for either a recent 
Windows-build, which is ready for testing Python3 scripts, as mentioned 
by Jean (see below) or maybe some pointers (or notes) by people who have 
some experience with the Windows context for building.

Thanks for your input,

Martin





On 27.10.2019 14:28, Jean Ghali wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Python 2 will soon be out of support and some distros have already started the process
> which will lead to the removal of Python 2 packages from their repositories.
> 
> This took some time, but Scribus scripter has now been ported to Python 3 which means
> that Scribus 1.5.6.svn now depends on Python 3 packages. Those of you using Ubuntu or
> Debian derived distributions and compiling Scribus by their own will want to install the
> python3-dev package in order to continue to do so. It is also recommended to install the
> python3-tk package.
> 
> This changes will break lots of existing scripts due to differences between the Python 2
> and Python 3 languages. Those of you relying on scripts for their tasks and using PPAs for
> getting 1.5.6.svn images may want to delay further updates and use AppImages in order to
> port their scripts to Python 3.
> 
> The AppImage generation process might be broken at this point tho. However if it is, it will
> be fixed quickly.
> 
> Jean
> 
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