[Wolves] trying to install pyodb

[Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint]

yeah i would love to have a go at porting it but it seems to work as.
If there any fixes i will have a go. I was also thinking about how to
put into a proper repo etc as well for proper installation routine?
etc?

nice challange when i am bored.

mark


On 10 May 2017 at 23:30, Adam Sweet via Wolves
<wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> On 10/05/2017 23:12, Adam Sweet wrote:
>> On 10/05/2017 13:58, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint via Wolves wrote:
>>> http://www.obdtester.com/pyobd
>>>
>> I'm a bit surprised their latest Linux version doesn't support a recent
>> Linux distribution but Looking at the package, it was most recently
>> updated in 2015 and the previous one was 2010. The last real development
>> was 2004 with only bug fixes since.
>>
>> You could always try contacting them to ask if they could update the
>> package to work with python-wxgtk3 but the chances are, if there's no
>> financial motivation to do so, then they won't. They probably don't have
>> a Linux developer sitting there doing nothing and updating to a newer
>> graphical toolkit might not be a quick job.
>
> I meant to add that you could always try porting the software to wxgtk3
> yourself. The source is available and necessity is the mother of
> invention...
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