Regarding Sigil: bug, request for an added port, or something else?

[J. Altman]

Thank you, Matthew.

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 08:42:08PM -0400, J. Altman wrote:
> Greetings, listmembers...
> 
> I need to know what might be the best way to proceed for the following:
> 
> When starting Sigil (a port with no maintainer) the following two errors
> occur:
> 
> =================================================================
> 
> Embedded Python Error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
> File "/usr/local/share/sigil/python3lib/xmlprocessor.py", line 6, in <module>
> from sigil_bs4.builder._lxml import LXMLTreeBuilderForXML
> File "/usr/local/share/sigil/plugin_launchers/python/sigil_bs4/builder/_lxml.py",
> line 26, in <module> from lxml import etree
> 
> ImportError: No module named 'lxml'
> 
> error in xmlprocessor repairXML: -2:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/share/sigil/python3lib/xmlprocessor.py", line 6,
> in <module> from sigil_bs4.builder._lxml import LXMLTreeBuilderForXML
> 
> File "/usr/local/share/sigil/plugin_launchers/python/sigil_bs4/builder/_lxml.py",
> line 26, in <module> from lxml import etree
> 
> ImportError: No module named 'lxml'
> 
> ===============================================================
> 
> Then Sigil starts; a core is (sometimes) dumped. And not just any
> old core, it seems:
> 
> du -ch sigil.core 
> 1.1G	sigil.core
> 1.1G	total
> 
> When I asked at Mobile Read forums, for Sigil support, it seems that
> Sigil needs lxml for Python 3; where the lxml in the ports tree is
> py27-lxml-3.5.0.
> 
> Would this be considered a bug, or a ports request? It seems that it's
> a ports request, at this point. I assume that such a request goes to
> ports@, or to the maintainer of py27-lxml-3.5.0?
> 
> OTOH, I have no idea if lxml for Python 3 is the solution.
> 
> Thanks for any assitance, and best regards,
> 
> Joe
> 
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