Hi all, Thanks to Jaap and any other contributors for all the hard work porting Zim to Python 3 and GTK 3! I look forward to using it. Last month, Jaap released Zim 0.69 (Python 2 / GTK 2) and I successfully ran the build process for Windows, but didn't get around to publishing it. I've been using my 0.69 build and aside from the existing things we don't know how to fix from before, it's working. I will sign the Windows full install and portable install packages and upload them to the Zim for Windows site probably tonight. (Sorry I got distracted in the mean time. I've been sick.) Also last month I started to try to build the Python 3 and GTK 3 branch of Zim. I had some trouble with dependency hell, even though I was using pip and pyinstaller. I do not know how close I am to a solution. I will not be focusing on this effort, personally; I have other personal projects on the table, and I don't know how many hours I can put into this in the next month or two. If anyone wants to try to build Zim 0.70 RC1 using Python 3 and GTK 3 on WINDOWS, with the intention of packaging and sharing it, my recommendation would be to stick with pip and pyinstaller, and try to do things as simple as possible. Py2exe (used by the build script for the Python 2 version of Zim) has not seen a release since 2008, while pyinstaller claims to know how to deal with GTK 3, out of the box. For the build and packaging steps that aren't covered by pyinstaller, you can probably lift ideas from my Zim for Python 2 build process in "./windows" in the Git repository. If you come up with a good clean solution that's easily repeatable (download 1 or 2 dependencies, run a shell script or two), that's great! Show it to the team and let's delete the old build process and replace it with yours in the Git repository. GPG-sign your installer executables and I'd be happy to put them on my site. (Or you can take over Windows installer hosting.) If no one else comes up with a nice solution for packaging Zim 0.70 for Windows, I'll probably get something working by March or April. Brendan Kidwell
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