[ase-users] New stable release: ASE-3.10

[Tristan Maxson]

Previously on IRC we have discussed also switching to a different platform
such as just raw TK, while it is not as pretty, it is highly portable and
consistent in all environments.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> It appears that PyGTK will be replaced by PyGI+GTK, and therefore, the
> GUI will have to be ported:
>
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/PyGObject/IntrospectionPorting
>
> Has anyone (JJ?) thought about this before?
>
> 2016-03-22 14:55 GMT+01:00 Łukasz Mentel <lmmentel at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> >
> >> The ase-gui script has "#!/usr/bin/env python" at the top, so it will
> use
> >> Python 2, which works with pygtk, so you should be able to use 3 for
> scripts
> >> and 2 for ase-gui.
>
> Does that not depend on the environment?  I think there are
> distributions where that corresponds to Python3.
>
> Best regards
> Ask
>
>
> >
> > I think this might not work as expected since it would require the
> > /usr/bin/env/python2 interpreter to have ase installed since in the
> ase-gui
> > script there are also imports
> > from ase that won't be satisfied if ase is only installed with python3
> > version. So it means I would have to install ase twice, once for python2
> and
> > once for python3 and
> > use python3 for scripting and python2 for ase-gui which is a bit
> cumbersome.
> > Or maybe I'm missing something?
> >
> > I think the way to go is switch to pygobject for python3 as in the issue
> > already created https://gitlab.com/ase/ase/issues/13.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lukasz
> >
> >
> >
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