Just tested building latest 6.1.0-beta1 (Slackware Linux), builds without errors and seems to run OK (haven’t, of course, tested each and every function). Thanks to the devs, looking forward to the stable release.

@dsblank do you want to mention that bsd databases are no longer supported by Gramps on Windows?

The Windows AIO build is failing for 6.1.0-beta1.

I’ll try and take a look later

[image] SteveY: do you want to mention that bsd databases are no longer supported by Gramps on Windows? Probably someone more familiar with the situation should add that, or maybe a full wiki page link. Related questions that could be addressed: What is BSDDB? What was the last versions that…

The Gramps 6.1.0-beta1 is now in an archived flatpak at the gramps-project github Release Gramps Flatpak 6.1.0-beta1--1 · gramps-project/flatpak · GitHub if anyone wants to test the beta on linux without a source install. I did not notice any bugs other than the cli noise pasted below: [scott@local…

Our Snap includes the python3-bsddb3 package. It is available on Ubuntu and Arch, so I would guess it is also available on other Linux distributions. It looks like it is also bundled with our Mac version.

cd aio; ./build.sh works for me locally (fully updated MSSY2 UCRT64) but I can reproduce an error running the github action. The first sign of problems in the logs is here: Building wheels for collected packages: orjson, pydotplus, pygraphviz Building wheel for orjson (pyproject.toml): started …

[image] SteveY: #![feature] may not be used on the stable release channel` There’s an earlier error collecting pydot Collecting pydot WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', Con…

Yes, python-bsddb3 is the abandoned python binding that stopped working reliably when I tested it several years ago with the python 3.10 included with the Gnome runtime at Flathub. I see that Ubuntu is patching python-bsddb3, or perhaps Snaps have older python3 versions available for use? I could no…

[image] S.Mackay: I see that Ubuntu is patching python-bsddb3, or perhaps Snaps have older python3 versions available for use? I could not find the version of python used on the Gramps Snap. The Snap is using the python-bsddb3 package from Ubuntu 24.04.

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