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Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3

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On 2020-10-27 13:08, songbird wrote:
> well, yesterday finally became the day when i tried to
> see if i could get the old getmail to be left alone, but
> nope, none of the options worked.
> 
>   the good news, is that getmail6 is in unstable and was
> a drop in replacement for getmail.  there's a bit of an
> odd message coming out of it but that's not an error and
> everything is ending up where it should.
> 
>   during all of this fiddling i was wondering if the
> python2 to python3 transition was complete enough that
> i could run all my programs that i use and it all works
> just fine.  so i installed python-is-python3 and the
> system rebooted and none of things i use the most have
> failed.  that's all i need from a system (browswer, e-mail,
> usenet, gimp, go, libreoffice).  i've never done much
> with python2 and the game i wrote was python3 so that's
> all to the good.
> 
>   this was just a quick heads-up for those who are stuck
> on getmail like i am (and quite happy with it).  :)
> 

as far as getmail goes maintainer thinks is an unnecessary panic.

""getmail goes out of official support by my distro" may be a 
theoretical
problem, or a philosophical one, but it it certainly is not a 
significant
practical problem.  Keep a Python 2 binary around, download getmail, 
untar it,
and run it right out of the directory - that's literally all that's 
required."

what exactly the python 2 binary is I haven't had need to look as yet.

mick

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getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2020-10-27 14:20 +0100
  Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 14:40 +0100
    Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2020-10-27 15:00 +0100
    Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-27 15:10 +0100
      Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 15:20 +0100
        Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-27 15:50 +0100
          Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 19:20 +0100
      Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2020-10-27 15:50 +0100
        Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-27 16:00 +0100
          Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 16:30 +0100
          Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2020-10-27 18:30 +0100
            Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-27 19:20 +0100

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