Re: First Inkscope Video Podcast is live!

Thank you.  That helps.

Nice to see you BTW in the video.  It gives me a better
feeling about who you are.

Any plans for another (shorter, more focused) video?

Andrew


On Sun 26 May 2019 21:57 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2019-05-26 at 16:08 -0700, Andrew Kurn wrote:
> >  Why go to Python 3
> > when Python 2 works perfectly well? . . . especially when
> > so much code depends on Python 2 - ?
> 
> I can at least answer this directly:
> 
> 7 months before python2 isn't supported any more: 
> https://pythonclock.org/
> 
> Statement from projects: https://python3statement.org/
> 
> Python2 does NOT work perfectly well, Inkscape has horrid support for
> unicode in extensions because of how terrible python2 unicode handling
> is. There are very good reasons not to use python2 any more, but we
> will be careful about moving to python3 as there's a lot of code out
> there and we've not got a good enough extensions network to get code
> updated.
>