Re: Options for running a legacy python 2.7 app in Debian 12
Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 10:54:17PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have an OKI scanner which has a neat little linux app for running it
> > from a linux desktop. However it hasn't been updated from python 2.7
> > days and I'm looking at ways I might get it to run on my recently
> > upgraded Debian 12 system.
>
> I'm pretty sure that someone somewhere is maintaining a Python 2
> compatible interpreter so I'd probably install that from source
> somewhere and use that as the interpreter just for this one app.
>
> It is my understanding that no other project can call itself "Python"
> due to trademark laws so forks of Python 2 have to call themselves
> something else. One example would be Tauthon:
>
> https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
>
> I have never tried it.
>
> It seems like a lot of work for what must be itself an abandoned app
> (otherwise it would have Python 3 support by now).
>
It's a fairly old printer but it is still supported (drivers etc. for
windows 11) but they've never updated the Linux scanner driver, I
don't suppose there's that much demand for it. It's a very neat
little app though so I'd like to keep using it.
--
Chris Green
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