I just wrote a wiki article on running my D-rats fork in a VENV.

There are a lot of ways to have python on systems, Particularly on Windows and Mac, so this probably needs some help from users of those python packages to flesh it out.

If you are currently running the "setup.py" in d-rats to install it, this article is important for an upcoming change.

But it will also be useful in general, I hope.



I am using msys2 mingw64 python on Microsoft Windows as met the following requirements for me.

1. It had a free license, I can use it on professional projects with out a license conflict.

2. It had all of the packages that were required to run d-rats available from a signed repository.

3. It was reasonably simple to setup and maintain.

And as a bonus, it originally had a bug that made some windows features on d-rats not work, and the msys2 maintainers actually quickly fixed that from my bug report.

If there are alternatives that meet those criteria for python on Microsoft Windows, I would be interested in knowing them to try them out.

Also, this year may be the last year for support of python3 on Windows 7 or earlier.?? The maintainers of the windows specific packages are dropping support for anything older than Windows 8.

Unfortunate, because while us Hams like the shiny new stuff, we also do like to get the most life we can out of equipment and do not see tossing out a perfectly good laptop just because it can not run a newer OS.

73,
-John