After about 15 months of gradual work by me and a few other people, https://calibre-ebook.com/ is running pretty stably on python3, so I've uploaded a split package to [community]: calibre (the default python2 build), calibre-python3 (a python3 build, naturally), and calibre-common with some common files. Hopefully this will get rid of one of our major python2 consumers soon. Upstream doesn't officially support this yet, so treat it like the pre-beta it is. You'll also be unable to use thirdparty plugins, since none of those are ported yet, so you may want to have both 'calibre-python3' and 'calibre' installed -- since pacman still doesn't have support for an "alternatives" feature, I've written a dumb shell script to do the work of switching between the two, see `calibre-alternatives help` for details (it is in the calibre-common package). General information about the port and its status can be found here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/870 At some point soon upstream will finish making cross-platform betas and plugins will start to be ported by their developers, so watch this space (and the mobileread.com forums) for more info... Bug reports for python3 regressions will be greatly appreciated, as there are probably a lot of fun edge cases and I'd like to see this finished sooner rather than later. ;) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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