Finding it very difficult to move pyexiv2 code from Python 2 to Python 3

[Robin Becker]

On 18/08/2020 20:05, Vincent Vande Vyvre wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> Two solutions:
> 1. Install exiv2-dev and py3exiv2 with pip
>      $ sudo apt-get install libexiv2-dev
>      $ sudo pip3 install py3exiv2
> 
> 2. Install my ppa
>      $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vincent-vandevyvre/vvv
>      $ sudo apt-get update
>      $ sudo apt-get install python3-exiv2
> 
> Don't change your old code for pyexiv2, the names of the modules are
> unchanged, your old code should work as it.
> 
> Off course old strings are now unicode.
> 
> Vincent (AKA VinsS)
> 
I haven't tried #2 (I use Arch), but I did try 1) in a python 3.8 virtual env. I ended up getting into a problem with boost

>    src/exiv2wrapper.hpp:34:10: fatal error: boost/python.hpp: No such file or directory
>        34 | #include "boost/python.hpp"
>           |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>     compilation terminated.
>     error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

so obviously I need to install some version of boost libs or  Boost.Python etc etc. Gave up :(
-luddite-ly yrs-
Robin Becker