[vbox-dev] Python2 dependency in VitrualBox 6.1.26

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Detailed investigation revealed that the removal of the python2 
dependency was due to a build issue with 6.1.24 where the release 
engineer used a workaround (there was a build failure) which had this 
side effect.

In any case, the dependency (which was actually added back by a 
developer in 6.1.6) should not be there.

The python3 support still needs some work because practically every 
Ubuntu version has a different 3.x version (which means that we'd need 
to build many more packages for the various Ubuntu versions). There is a 
special stable API for python3 which we need to adapt our code to use, 
then it will be feasible.

It is the required library which causes those API dependencies. The 
actual python scripts are long adapted and can be used by python3 
without trouble.

Klaus

On 2021-07-29 07:18, 1 1 wrote:
>
> Hello, in version 6.1.24 was removed dependency on python2. Why in 
> version 6.1.26 was returned? When will migration to python3? Thanks!
>
> OS: Kubuntu 20.04 x64
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/attachments/20210729/f501455b/attachment.html>