!IMPORTANT!: Maintenance update

[renekliment]

Hey there!

it seems many people are running into silly issues with this. Mainly because of dependencies and py2 / py3 - did Raspbian switch to py3 as default?

I've decided to do a little maintenance update so people who still wanna use this repo get less issues. I will try to do it on weekends when I get some free time. No promises about it though.

Until then, please don't open new issues regarding dependencies.

TODO list:

• [x] use python 3 as default
• [ ] use venv so we don't have clashing deps
• [x] update the deps - they have been outdated for a while

[mschindl]

I needed two workarounds to get it work.

https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi/issues/420#issuecomment-429301592 https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi/issues/415#issuecomment-418217508

[saitaiky]

So do we needa change form pip2 to pip3 and python 2 to python 3? Cuz I got the same issues..

https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi/issues/415#issuecomment-433289305

[renekliment]

The related PR #429 has been merged to dev. Please test and let me know if it works for you, so we can release it.

Worthy notes:

• This drops support for Debian/Raspbian older than Stretch (Jessie is no longer supported).
• This switches to Python 3 & drops supports for Python < 3.5.

[renekliment]

Since there is probably nobody to test stuff, I've released this as v1.7 and I hope for the best.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

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Also, what came to my mind only now is that C.H.I.P. computer is stuck with Jessie (and Python 3.4.x) and becomes unsupported with version. When installing a newer Python version manually, it should work and be okay.

Actually, in #7, there is a little note:

Everything works in Python 3 except for the CHIP_IO library.

... so probably no GPIO on the C.H.I.P. for now.