I created a Python 3 port of UXP out of boredom...

[Moonchild]

That odd powershell.exe message is one I haven't been seeing on my system and for whatever reason haven't been able to reproduce. The reason it's particularly odd is that I don't recall ever adding anything powershell-related or touching any files that mention it.

Just a thought but maybe it invokes powershell because it uses file associations and it gets invoked that way? Might be a python for Windows oddity, and may need to configuration of python itself to avoid?

[__Sandra__]

This is what warning about powershell looks like. It appears almost immediately and in the future, it does not seem to affect the project build process in any way.

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And another question, I don’t know how much it relates inconsequentially to the topic. I'm building a project with the arch:AVX option. When compiling some files, there are many override warnings, for example cl: command line warning D9025: override \"/arch:AVX\" to \"/arch:SSE2\". Where a file is compiled whose name mentions optimization for SSE2, this is understandable (for example, sse_optimized.cpp, nsTextFragmentSSE2.cpp). But there are also overrides “in the other direction” (cl: command line warning D9025: override \"/arch:SSE2\" to \"/arch:AVX\""). How normal is this situation?

[plumsh]

Does this Python 3 port include any code from this port?

[athenian200]

Does this Python 3 port include any code from this port?

Actually, wound up not needing to use anything from that one. Partially because everything was just shared as a single, monolithic diff across the entire codebase and I couldn't make heads or tails of it, plus I had already started working on my port before that one was ready. I did, however, get snippets of code from Copilot as I went... but I was making one change at a time and rebuilding to see where it failed (outside of where I used 2to3 of course, but that was a normal code replacement script rather than AI), validating behavior the same way I always did when applying and fixing up patches from Bugzilla and other sources to match our codebase.

So it's really kind of a combination here... there were parts where I used 2to3 and traditional code replacement scripts, parts where I referenced Bugzilla, parts where I just learned how Python 3 worked and applied the same mechanical fixes to the same class of problem so often it became easy, and parts that used a snippet of code from Stack Overflow or Copilot applied to our codebase.

[solitude]

Shouldn't http://developer.palemoon.org/build/linux/ be updated to list Python3 as dependency now, instead of 2.7

[jobbautista9]

The instructions are intended for those building from the release branch, which is currently still in Python 2.7.

[MasterSlenderTR]

We never supported VS2019 either (which seems to be the most recent Visual Studio that Windows 7 supports). http://developer.palemoon.org/build/windows/

You can force-install the latest version of VS2022 on Win7 and build Pale Moon too.

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