Thanks ! ... and no-need to backport new features (such as python3) to VBox 4.3.
Better release it together with future Virtualbox 4.4? On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Klaus Espenlaub <klaus.espenl...@oracle.com> wrote: > Ilya, > > On 22.04.2014 15:21, Ilya Kulakov wrote: >> Since the last patch I found 2 issues: >> - In one place I forgot to replace python2.6+ execpt syntax with python2.3 >> compatible >> - Forgot to replace all that __dict__ magic with python3 compatible >> setattr/getattr >> >> Updated patch is attached. > > The relevant part of it (some unused code has been eliminated in the > mean time, obsoleting a chunk of the patch) has been applied to trunk in > https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/54057/vbox > > Thank you very much for the contribution and for your patience. > > It's not yet decided if or how fast this will make it into VirtualBox > 4.3 - at the moment we're using the (python 2.x based) VirtualBox > Validation Kit to see if there are any incompatibilities. > > Note that this will give python3 support on Windows only. The changes > cover only COM, because the Python JACOB middleware does not need any > native libraries (which don't come with JACOB). > > Getting this to work on all other platform means adapting PyXPCOM, which > consists of both python and native library components > (libpython*.*.{so,dylib}) which are built as part of VirtualBox. > Currently there is no attempt at doing this for Python 3.x, so it won't > be able to talk to the VirtualBox API. This explains the trouble Alexey > Eromenko had when testing it on Linux. > > More contributions are always welcome... if none are coming we'll try to > somehow do the rest of the work, but there is no promise this will > happen instantly. > > Klaus > >> Best regards, >> Ilya Kulakov > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > vbox-dev@virtualbox.org > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
