rabbitvcs gedit plugin will not load in gedit 3.8, which requires Python 3

[ak-ambi]

Gedit 3.8 requires python3, so rabbitvcs gedit plugin won't work with it.

This bug was created in previous issue tracker and is still not fixed. Here is original issue: https://code.google.com/p/rabbitvcs/issues/detail?id=797

First thing to be done is to change "Loader=python" to "Loader=python3" in rabbitvcs-gedit3.plugin file. However that is not enough, as rabbitvcs-plugin.py has to be ported to Python 3. When I executed this plugin as written in python3, I got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/rabbitvcs-plugin.py", line 38, in
import rabbitvcs.util.helper
ImportError: No module named 'rabbitvcs'

(gedit:10518): libpeas-WARNING **: Error loading plugin 'rabbitvcs-plugin'

[CloCkWeRX]

Pull requests welcome for this.

[candrews]

I noticed that there's a commit against this issue. So is this issue now fixed in git and should this issue now be closed?

[CloCkWeRX]

See #33 for more

[candrews]

I'm seeing this bug in Fedora 21 - so is this a packaging bug then? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082942

[spehrson]

@candrews The commit against this issue only changes the Loader to python3, but as @ak-ambi pointed out, that is not enough to fix the problem, the plugin itself still needs to be ported to python3.

[rapgro]

Gedit plugins interface is b0rken for python, see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554535

Further, the API implemented in the plugin can not work with any Gedit after version 3.12 cause the Gedit developers have completely redesigned the API.

[adamplumb]

I looked into it a bit and it does look like there are some big changes in recent versions of Gedit. I was sort of hoping to get it running for the next release but I don't think I'll have time to sort it out.

[baem2]

rabbitvcs will probably be removed from the coming debian stable due to this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=979257