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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 05 2020 - 08:26:20 CDT

Hi,
  The test versions of VMD 1.9.4 work fine with Python 3.7, I'm not
sure what has led you to any other conclusion. The latest code still
compiles with both 2.x and 3.x, though at some point in the future
it may become 3.x only.

Best,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 02:16:15PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> Hello,
> With python-2 being EOL many linux distributions are starting to remove
> python2 bindings. This will end up affecting vmd-1.9.3 as it needs numpy.
> Looking to:
> [1]https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-new/devel.html
> [2]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/cvs2html/vmdlog/cvschangelogbuilder_vmd.html
> It seems progress is being made to port to python3, but looking into the
> configure file of vmd-1.9.4a43 it seems it is still relying on python2.
> I would then like to know if it is because of needing to update to a newer
> version... or if configure is not yet updated or...
> Thanks a lot for the information :-)
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-new/devel.html
> 2. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/cvs2html/vmdlog/cvschangelogbuilder_vmd.html 

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