[gps-users] Has anyone run into a problem with pep8 dependency causing a big failure in GPS?

[Emmanuel Briot]

> Since pep8 has been renamed to pycodestyle (for valid, but not critical reasons), I have not been able to run GPS and get any of my word and study in Ada done in my machine. I am considering doing a backward hack, building a private directory where I can build python with pep8 and everything GPS expects, then mount-binding both the development work directories and the important system directories so that GPS will run.  Or just run a virtual machine, but that is slower and requires special considerations for maintenance and accessing the file-system...  Right now these seem my only fast solutions I see to running the older versions and the current version of GPS (GPL), but future versions should should be adapted to work with the new python modules or remove the dependency on pep8 all together.  Anyhow, I am very eager to see GPL working again.


Hello,

We are not aware of such an issue. On the other hand, GPS GPL comes with its own python
installation, so removing pep8 in your system's python should have no impact unless you also
modify GPS's own python install ... which we don't recommend.

Most likely you can simply disable the pep8_integration plugin for now (via the /Tools menu in
GPL 2016), and that should be it. That plug-in will eventually need to be adapted or removed
when we change the version of python.

I did not follow python development, but I am surprised they would be removing pep8 from
python2. Are you trying to use python3 ? (in which case I certainly except much more failures
than just pep8 indeed)

regards
Emmanuel