Python3 and Apache OpenOffice

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 01:44:53PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> When I was involved in Apache OpenOffice, I committed patches so that
> OpenOffice would work with Python3. Unfortunately the build with the
> external python3 broke around Python 3.6 and the commit logs left no
> reference on what went wrong so upstream never got a log to know what was
> wrong.
> 
> Since Python 2.7 is deprecated now, and AOO has no option to completely
> disable Python, we either need patches to fix the build with recent python
> (ideal) or we should deprecate AOO. I suspect the other option, having AOO
> install its own python is undesired.
> 
IMHO we should deprecated AOO, I don't know how many user AOO have but I suspect
it is pretty low, and most users have switched to libreoffice long ago.

Best regards,
Bapt
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