Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: The state of pySerial Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 03:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1369886356 3127 24.118.110.103 (30 May 2013 03:59:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 03:59:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:46431 On 2013-05-29, Terry Jan Reedy wrote: > On 5/29/2013 3:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2013-05-29, Ma Xiaojun wrote: [...] >>> Unforunately, pySerial project doesn't seem to have a good state. I >>> find pySerial + Python 3.3 broken on my machine (Python 2.7 is OK) . >>> There are unanswered outstanding bugs, PyPI page has 2.6 while SF >>> homepage still gives 2.5. >>> >>> Any idea? >> >> Volunteer as a maintainer and start fixing bugs? > > It seems to be getting around 200 downloands a day. Quite worth > someone supporting it. Chris has a day job, just like the rest of us. He might even have a family and hobbies other than supporting pyserial. ;) Everybody should feel free to submit patches for open bugs and to test any patches waiting to be accepted. >> I use pyserial regularly, and the current version works fine for me, >> but I'm using Python 2.7. There are still too many libraries that >> don't support 3.x for me to consider using 3.x for real work. > > The only download is a .exe. It it just the executable binary or is that > a zip unpacker with source? http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyserial.html#from-source-tar-gz-or-checkout https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyserial/pyserial-2.6.tar.gz#md5=cde799970b7c1ce1f7d6e9ceebe64c98 -- Grant