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From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Python3 and Apache OpenOffice
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Hi;

When I was involved in Apache OpenOffice, I committed patches so that 
OpenOffice would work with Python3. Unfortunately the build with the 
external python3 broke around Python 3.6 and the commit logs left no 
reference on what went wrong so upstream never got a log to know what 
was wrong.

Since Python 2.7 is deprecated now, and AOO has no option to completely 
disable Python, we either need patches to fix the build with recent 
python (ideal) or we should deprecate AOO. I suspect the other option, 
having AOO install its own python is undesired.

Regards,

Pedro.