Cant install Cygwin Virt-manager that asks for library that asks for python2
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Fri Nov 3 14:02:28 GMT 2023
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…
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