Re: Calibre and Python

2020-08-27 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 21:16, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 26Aug2020 08:29, George N. White III wrote: > >For both Windows and macOS Calibre runs in a qemu VM, so it > >should be possible to construct a lighter VM for F32 based on the > >Windows and macOS examples. > > Calibre is a native Python

Re: Calibre and Python

2020-08-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 10:16 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 26Aug2020 08:29, George N. White III wrote: > > For both Windows and macOS Calibre runs in a qemu VM, so it > > should be possible to construct a lighter VM for F32 based on the > > Windows and macOS examples. > > Calibre is a native

Re: Calibre and Python

2020-08-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 26Aug2020 08:29, George N. White III wrote: >For both Windows and macOS Calibre runs in a qemu VM, so it >should be possible to construct a lighter VM for F32 based on the >Windows and macOS examples. Calibre is a native Python 2.7 PyQt5 app on MacOS. It does _not_ run in a VM. The Python 2.

Re: Calibre and Python

2020-08-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-08-26 at 08:29 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 07:42, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > Since F32 now has Python 3 as the default, I find that some Calibre > > plug-ins no longer work, though Calibre itself is fine. For the moment, > > I'm running it in an

Re: Calibre and Python

2020-08-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:42:20 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I'm running it in an F31 VM to get round this Yep, me too. Seemed simplest. I use the VM only when I need a plugin, for normal use I run the python3 version on f32. ___ users mailing list -

Re: Calibre and Python

2020-08-26 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 07:42, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Since F32 now has Python 3 as the default, I find that some Calibre > plug-ins no longer work, though Calibre itself is fine. For the moment, > I'm running it in an F31 VM to get round this, but there must be a > better way. I expect it i

Calibre and Python

2020-08-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Since F32 now has Python 3 as the default, I find that some Calibre plug-ins no longer work, though Calibre itself is fine. For the moment, I'm running it in an F31 VM to get round this, but there must be a better way. I expect it involves environment variables but am too lazy to experiment, so if