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From: Josh Vermaas (joshua.vermaas_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 05 2020 - 14:29:29 CDT

Hi Pacho,

Those configure files are just old. Current beta versions can compile
against either python 3.7 or python 2.7, so the basic compatibility problem
has been solved as John said. What I do for compiling with python support
has been to update the library locations. For 1.9.3, that meant compiling
against python 2.7, but now the betas do work with python 3 versions.

-Josh

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:43 AM Pacho Ramos <pachoramos_at_gmail.com> 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:
> https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-new/devel.html
>
> 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 :-)
>