On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 18:48, elextr ***@***.***> wrote:

> Thanks @eht16 <https://github.com/eht16>, dunno why it didn't show in my
> search, but anyway that doesn't have the configure.ac so I left it and
> the other two build scripts and put them here so we have the milestone of
> next release.
>
> So first question, what should configure.ac test for, python3? And is the
> windows py still relevant?
>
It should test for *python *first, and then execute python -V to get the
version and test for *version > 3* If either fails, it should test for *python3
*and accept any version. If that fails it should report that it
requires a *python
version > 3*.
Python2 is no longer supported except (for maybe source only) releases for
security fixes.

geany_gtk_doc_header.m4 is entirely @b4n <https://github.com/b4n> ping
>
Does this mean it is OK? I.e. in geany's control.

gen_api_gtkdoc.py has had lots of contributors, so anybody know if it will
> run on python3
>
I found a copy of gen_api_gtkdoc.py at
https://nest.parrot.sh/packages/debian/geany/-/blob/master/scripts/gen-api-gtkdoc.py.
It uses *#!/usr/bin/env python* and I *saw *no python2 only code. I did not
look to see if they were patching it as their commits had over 1000 files.

Doug

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