I've tried with both Py 3.7 and 3.8 and it seems to work fine. Please update. Thanks Reproducible: Always
how did you test it exactly? Were there test units? Can you provide logs?
I simply added 3_7 and 3_8 to PYTHON_COMPAT and did some runtime testing. Of course this should be tested thoroughly before it enters the tree. Please consider this rather a proposal than a solution with logs attached and what not.
I don't think there is a test suite. Both examples from https://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=tinypy:avidemux#example do work with python 3.7
Created attachment 637248 [details, diff] Disable python plugin Another possibility would be to disable the python plugin
Disabling the python plugin is not a good choice. Avidemux python support is based on tinypy, an included mini-interpreter written in C that, as distributed with avidemux, doesn't depend on the system interpreter. But many uses of avidemux depend on tinypy scripts, and disabling it would make users unhappy. I don't believe the system python is needed by avidemux-plugins *at all*. Most of the python scripts that are included with the avidemux distribution are for use with the included tinypy interpreter, and the remainder are used by the avidemux developers for code generation (and not needed at compile time as the generated C/C++ code is included in the distribution) or are system-specific build scripts (e.g. for Mac) that aren't used by Gentoo. Avidemux documentation does not indicate any kind of Python as a dependency. I don't think avidemux actually has any python dependency, and the right choice is to simply remove the declaration in the ebuild. I don't know how to test it, as I don't know how to create a Gentoo environment that doesn't have any Python in it. Of course something must be done so that 3.6 can be removed. For some time this package has been the only thing tying me to 3.6.
Ping. What William T Wilson tells implies Christian Tietz claim is right: > I've tried with both Py 3.7 and 3.8 and it seems to work fine. Please update. You cannot test Py 3.7 when it is not used. At least a masked new version for testing with compat python3_7 should be available for users to test.
(In reply to Ulenrich from comment #6) > You cannot test Py 3.7 when it is not used. At least a masked new version > for testing with compat python3_7 should be available for users to test. You could in an overlay.
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=58216c5b068cda416017ab8311484361e0e9261c "media-libs/avidemux-plugins: bump to v2.7.6" PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8,9} ) media-libs/avidemux-plugins ebuild still depends on dev-lang/spidermonkey:0= which depends on Python 2.7 . I have tried a media-libs/avidemux-plugins live ebuild with only dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.2.0::gentoo installed. When should I see an error? Where is it used? media-libs/avidemux-plugins with dev-lang/spidermonkey is/was the last python 2.7 dependency on my system. polkit now uses latest dev-lang/spidermonkey
