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jackie_w · 12-19-2019, 04:17 PM

@GitHub gurus, I need some help please.

Windows 10 64bit user. I've tested my plugins for Python3 compatibility as well as I can in the 4.99.2 beta of calibre portable. However one of them does require that I also test it in a Win64 environment. For reasons best known to Microsoft, the MS SAPI functions for text-to-speech don't seem to work the same in Win32 and Win64.

To do this I'd like to create a complete new copy of Python3 run from source calibre which doesn't interfere with my normal Python2 run from source calibre. (in case it's relevant, I only ever use run from source as a convenient way of quickly testing not-yet-released features or for having access to python code.)

My knowledge and experience of GitHub cloning/pulling is limited to what I read in the calibre user manual "Getting the code", namely, from a CMD window:

To clone:

Code:

"C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git" clone git://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre.git

To pull:

Code:

"C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git" pull --no-edit

I read Kovid's post #1 but do not see anything in the above 2 lines that I can change from 'master' to 'py3'.

Please can you tell me what I need to change to do what's required?

12-19-2019, 04:17 PM	#61
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,252 Karma: 16544692 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	@GitHub gurus, I need some help please. Windows 10 64bit user. I've tested my plugins for Python3 compatibility as well as I can in the 4.99.2 beta of calibre portable. However one of them does require that I also test it in a Win64 environment. For reasons best known to Microsoft, the MS SAPI functions for text-to-speech don't seem to work the same in Win32 and Win64. To do this I'd like to create a complete new copy of Python3 run from source calibre which doesn't interfere with my normal Python2 run from source calibre. (in case it's relevant, I only ever use run from source as a convenient way of quickly testing not-yet-released features or for having access to python code.) My knowledge and experience of GitHub cloning/pulling is limited to what I read in the calibre user manual "Getting the code", namely, from a CMD window: To clone: Code: "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git" clone git://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre.git To pull: Code: "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git" pull --no-edit I read Kovid's post #1 but do not see anything in the above 2 lines that I can change from 'master' to 'py3'. Please can you tell me what I need to change to do what's required? Last edited by jackie_w; 12-19-2019 at 04:20 PM.