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
