Re: misc/calibre python version (3.10 seems to work)

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 12:12, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 11:16, Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > The Makefile for misc/calibre currently says
> >
> > PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE+= 310 311 # as of 5.40.0
> >
> > Since I was rebuilding everything on my own machine with python 3.10
> > anyway, I tried calibre with that version.
> >
> > It builds without complaint.
> > There might be run-time problems, but in a quick check of "calibre" and
> > "ebook-viewer" I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
> >
> > I would propose to remove the 310 from the limitation. Not 311 yet since
> > I have not tried it (but I suspect there would not really be issues).
> >
> > If we run into something in the packaged calibre (5.44.0) that has
> > problems with python 3.10, I would rather add a patch than restrict the
> > python version. Updating calibre itself is, afaik, not yet possible,
> > since it switches to Qt6 and we don't have (at least) the Qt6 version of
> > qt6-webengine packaged.
> >
> > Any objections? Anyone wants to test with python for workgroups^W^W 3.11?
>
> I'm just starting a local rebuild on netbsd-10 with
> PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT=311. Let me tweak calibre's Makefile to see if
> it's happy with that :)

OK, building calibre with python 3.11 seems to work fine for importing
a couple of hundred ebooks, and cross checking online metadata.

Will update the package to allow 3.10 and 3.11

David