Re: upgrading python on raspbian

2019-10-16 Thread Cousin Stanley
Gene Heskett wrote: > Continueing this thread, I now have a missing function by name, "units", > that is preventing LinuxCNC from running. > > Where in the python 3 world do I find that function?, > Under debian buster there is a python 2 package called python-quantities that apparent

Re: upgrading python on raspbian

2019-10-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 October 2019 11:10:41 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:30:59 -0400, Gene Heskett > > > declaimed the following: > >On Monday 14 October 2019 12:56:22 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >Continueing this thread, I now have a missing function by name, > > "units", that is prev

Re: upgrading python on raspbian

2019-10-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 October 2019 12:56:22 Gene Heskett wrote: Continueing this thread, I now have a missing function by name, "units", that is preventing LinuxCNC from running. Where in the python 3 world do I find that function?, which in this case controls what it is fed on to a pyvcp display accord

Re: upgrading python on raspbian

2019-10-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 October 2019 12:00:42 Michael Torrie wrote: > On 10/14/19 8:52 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I think thats the obvious path forward. Once ported, we don't have > > to worry about that legacy stuff for two or 3 generations of linux. > > A worthy goal and I'm sure the LinuxCNC folk would

Re: upgrading python on raspbian

2019-10-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/14/19 10:00 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/403 > > Whatever you do, you probably will want to discuss it on the github > issue tracker to make sure efforts aren't duplicated. Reading further, it appears that the binding and embedding python 3 has bee

Re: upgrading python on raspbian

2019-10-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/14/19 8:52 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > I think thats the obvious path forward. Once ported, we don't have to > worry about that legacy stuff for two or 3 generations of linux. A worthy goal and I'm sure the LinuxCNC folk would be grateful for contributions. Be aware that porting the python

Re: upgrading python on raspbian

2019-10-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 1:53 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 13 October 2019 16:22:33 Chris Angelico wrote: > > My recommendation would be to start with "sudo apt build-dep > > linuxcnc-uspace" and see if it can get any, but otherwise, just > > replace "python-" with "python3-" and see if tha

Re: upgrading python on raspbian

2019-10-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 13 October 2019 16:22:33 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 6:38 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'm not a python expert by a long ways. > > > > I have built the linuxcnc-master, which is the development branch of > > linuxcnc, a machine control program to run most metal carvin

Re: upgrading python on raspbian

2019-10-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 6:38 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'm not a python expert by a long ways. > > I have built the linuxcnc-master, which is the development branch of > linuxcnc, a machine control program to run most metal carving machines. > Lathes, milling machines, anything you can motorize,