Re: PyBitmessage is not dead. Ignore the FUD.

On Thu, 5 Sep 2024, 711 Spooky Mart wrote:

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PyBitmessage is not dead. Ignore the FUD.
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I think Peter and gang just got tired of responding to this recurring
claim. I wouldn't even expect a rebuttal from them at this point.
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Newer forks have been under development, one in Python3 and one in Rust.
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Here is the PyBitmessage fork in Python3:
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https://github.com/kashikoibumi/PyBitmessage
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Somebody should help the maintainer. I am no longer a Pythonista or I
would. I dumped Python after the 2.7 sunset as I expect they will
likely break Py3 equally bad some day. I will be occasionally reviewing
Koibumi's bash scripts, build scripts and documentation looking for
errors or points of improvement.
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Interesting. I thought it was dead. Nice to see some development and a nice compiled rust executable sounds like a good thing too!