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intra2net / paperbackup

Create a pdf with barcodes to backup text files on paper. Designed to backup ASCII-armored GnuPG and SSH key files and ciphertext.
MIT License
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switch to python qrcode #19

Open anarcat opened 1 year ago

anarcat commented 1 year ago

python-qrencode is not in great shape. it hasn't seen a release in 3 years and just crashes in python 3.10 because of a cython api change (https://github.com/Arachnid/pyqrencode/pull/14).

python-qrcode is much better maintained and doesn't suffer from those problems. it's used successfully by the qr-backup project, see https://github.com/lincolnloop/python-qrcode

kamalmostafa commented 8 months ago

This issue breaks paperbackup completely for Ubuntu 22.04 (python-3.10) and most other modern OS versions.

... SystemError: PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN macro must be defined for '#' formats

My Dockerfile pull req works around it by forcing python-3.9 but addressing the root problem should be a high priority, IMHO.