[spambayes-dev] Dev environment setup

[Skip Montanaro]

Thanks for responding Mark. As you indicated, SpamBayes has been on
long-term hiatus. The biggest impressive for me are a) Gmail does a good
job, and b) I've so far been unable to convince anyone with Windows
packaging experience to update that side of things.

That said, porting most of it to Python 3 isn't likely to be all that
difficult. A couple of us have taken partial cracks at it.

Skip

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 10:13 AM Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't think SpamBayes has any current developers and most work dried up
> even before Python 3 was ready. Modern Outlook also hasn't been tested. So
> I suspect you are probably on your own here, but those of us left holding
> the keys would be happy to arrange any doc etc changes you might make get
> committed if possible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
> On 2023-11-12 10:57 p.m., John Cherney wrote:
>
> Is there a recommended set of versions of tools and libraries for
> Spambayes development? (In particular, is there a recommended setup for
> python 3.x?)
>
>
>
> I would like to get Spambayes to work on a Windows 10 64-bit machine. The
> current recommendation works on my machine: Use the 32-bit version of
> Office 365 Outlook and install Spambayes into a non-standard directory like
> C:/Spambayes. Given that the software works under those conditions on a
> 64-bit machine, it makes me think that there is some interaction (registry
> key, etc) missing for Outlook 64-bit to recognize Spambayes. Maybe this is
> something as simple as rebuilding the installer on a 64-bit machine? (Ok,
> realistically, I’m sure someone has already tried that.)
>
>
>
> Additionally, is there any way to see the runtime error being generated?
> Outlook 64-bit recognizes that Spambayes is there but generates this
> message in the Add-ins window: “Load Behavior: Not loaded. A runtime error
> occurred during the loading of the COM Add-in.” Where can I see that
> runtime error? Maybe it’s a problem that’s already been solved? I remember
> seeing some DEP related issues with Outlook and/or the Spambayes plugin. I
> didn’t have any luck trying to disable DEP on the machine or disable it for
> Outlook (per the FAQ). Any other suggestions?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwc
>
>
>
>
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