[REF] Switching from viivakoodi lib to python-barcode (back)

[legalsylvain]

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@yucer said :
Is there another project python-barcode that seems to be a fork from viivakoodi. It has additional releases and cleaner packaging.
Also it has less TODOs. One of them Improve Python 3 support seems to be done. Do you thing it can be used instead of viivakoodi ?

Hi @yucer,
Python-barcode is not a fork ! viivakoodi is a fork of python-barcode. (ref : #76) And we switched because python-barcode was not active anymore. (In fact Bitbucket old links are now broken)
But well, now, python-barcode seems to be more active than viivakoodi.

It seems that @lasley is now maintainer of viivakoodi. ref. @lasley : what do you think about that proposal ?

I'm personaly fully open to switch from a lib to another.

• I have no tecnical point of view
• regarding community activity, I'm in favor of the switch

Viivakoodi activity :

• 7 contributors, 0 commits since 2 years.

Python-barcode activity :

• 13 contributors, several commits in 2019.

@yucer, do you want to make the PR to switch the lib, to see if all is OK ?

regards.

[yucer]

@yucer, do you want to make the PR to switch the lib, to see if all is OK ?

Done let us see if there are no regressions. I suppose that the programming interface is the same.

[yucer]

However, there is something new: python-barcode uses Pillow instead of PIL when generating raster images.

Does this project generates only vector images (.SVG) ?

How many things in Odoo or OCA projects use PIL or Pillow features?

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