Update to Python 3 is reported as an issue since 2014: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123975
----- Mail original ----- > De: "Don Lewis" <truck...@apache.org> > À: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Envoyé: Samedi 2 Novembre 2019 19:09:17 > Objet: Re: [openoffice] 03/03: Fixes from upstream for newer GCC > > On 2 Nov, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > > Hi Don, > > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 8:06 PM Don Lewis <truck...@apache.org> > > wrote: > >> nss really needs to be updated. Unfortunately very recent > >> versions > >> can't be built with some of the ancient compilers that we are > >> stuck with > >> (like the old version of Visual C++ that we use for 32-bit Windows > >> builds), or at least not without an insane amount of patching. > > > > Python 2 is going EOL on January 1 2020 > > https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ > > https://pythonclock.org/ > > > > But Python 3 needs a more recent Visual Studio > > https://devguide.python.org/setup/#windows > > Unless AOO drops support for Python, updating the version of the > > Windows compiler seems a priority, python clock is ticking. > > Yes, we need to upgrade to python 3 for 4.2.x and higher. This is an > incompatible change, so it's probably not appropriate for 4.1.x. > I've > tried building the FreeBSD port with the system python 3 and the > build > fails, so there are probably some other code changes required. I > haven't > delved into that at all. > > Recent versions of nss are written using c99 features. It looks like > we > need Visual Studio 2015 for that. > > What version do we need for python 3? > > >> I don't know if gcc on CentOS 6 is also a problem. > > > > It seems Jim was building 4.1.7 on CentOS 5 and 4.2 on 7 > > I've been building both on CentOS 6. My CentOS 5 VM broke and I > haven't > been able to fix it. > > > -- > > Ariel Constenla-Haile > > La Plata, Buenos Aires > > Argentina > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
