Currently Orca in rawhide is broken and doesn't work at all. I'm looking into making the latest version work again and it would seem we need to get a bunch of deps ported to Python 3 first: - liblouis-python - python-brlapi - pyatspi - pyxdg - speech-dispatcher
- liblouis: The ticket tracking python3 support is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873186 - python-brlapi: The ticket tracking python3 support is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873241 + pyatspi: I went ahead and created a python3 subpackage, http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/pyatspi.git/commit/?id=a7768ca9 + pyxdg: Seems to have recently gotten python3 support, http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/pyxdg.git/commit/?id=b1309d71 - speech-dispatcher: The ticket tracking python3 support is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867958 We should aim to fix this by the time of the Fedora 19 Alpha release, to get Orca working on the live media.
Kalev: Thanks for doing this! For what it's worth, Fedora is my development environment (i.e. Orca master can be made to work in Rawhide). Regarding pyxdg: Fedora already has a python3-pyxdg package. But you should not need it. Orca now gets this information from GLib.get_user_data_dir(). As long as we're chatting about Orca's build and runtime dependencies, Orca now depends on yelp-tools (but yum doesn't know that). That should be added. Orca also depends on python3-cairo. (The cairo dependency is not new, and in a GNOME environment, odds are that people already have it. But the newness of Python 3 might make it worth adding to Orca's list of dependencies.)
Kalev ... this would imply Orace would be running with a non-'system' python (in that any image using it would be pulling both python2 and python3). That's not the most optimal. Is Python3 *required* for the current Orca, or does it merely work with it? I know there's a lot of work in upstream GNOME for moving to python3, but we're likely going to have to lag behind for a release or two before we can make a more global switch in our platform.
Yes, orca 3.7/3.8 only supports python3. I would say we have to ship two python runtimes. I really doubt we would be able to switch ALL of the python code we have on the live media to python3 any time soon. I personally think we should just start incrementally switching apps over to python3 and not making a flag day out of it. The situation is similar to what we had in F18 where we shipped with two gstreamer implementations. There's a GNOME goal for switching to Python 3, but it doesn't seem to get fully completed by the time of the 3.8 release. Of the core apps that we ship on the live media, we have gedit and orca switching to Python 3. Gedit uses python just for plugins, otherwise it's a C app. Orca however is a python app. Gedit in rawhide is already updated to the python3 version. Same goes with orca, Richard Hughes has updated it to a 3.7 prerelease (which however doesn't work at all, currently, because some of the deps are missing python3 support). In any case, I think it makes sense to continue with Orca's Python 3 support here. If we decide later to ship F19 with an older orca / gedit, this can easily be done in the F19 branch and keep the python3 work in the master branch. Adding mclasen to CC for opinions. Should we back down to orca 3.6 / gedit 3.6 for F19, to avoid shipping python3 on the live media?
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Please do not downgrade gedit, it had several bug fixes that need to be included in the next release. In case that you don't want python3 plugins just do not build them and make a specific package without them.
I have built orca-3.7.92-1.fc19 with Python 3 support now that we have enough Python 3 deps in place. It's a little bit crippled, built without brltty support, but still a nice improvement over the previous F19 Orca 3.7.x build which didn't work at all. mclasen, notting: Please let me know if you want to epoch-bump-downgrade back to the Python 2 version of Orca (3.6.x) for F19. I can take care of that, although I'd much more prefer shipping the latest upstream code.
Kalev: Yay! :) Mind if I ask why it was built without brltty support?
Joanmarie: brltty is still missing Python 3 support, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873241
If you try building unstable just to see if we can get it working, I'll ping Dave.
I don't want to touch brltty without getting explicit approval from the downstream package maintainer first; I've pinged him again in the ticket. I just had a clash today with the speech-dispatcher maintainer for backporting the Python 3 support to the F19 package, and don't want to repeat this.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
And finally, we have all the deps in place and orca-3.8.0-2.fc19 back in full functionality.