Running Drawbot as a module in environments that aren't Mac OS X

Maarten Idema

Hey there trying to install Drawbot as a module on a Ubuntu server running Python 3.8.10 and getting the following error. This is a dumb question, but is Drawbot Mac OS X only?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-install-o13_uyde/pyobjc-framework-CoreServices/setup.py", line 26, in <module>
    Extension(
  File "/tmp/pip-install-o13_uyde/pyobjc-framework-CoreServices/pyobjc_setup.py", line 462, in Extension
    os_level = get_os_level()
  File "/tmp/pip-install-o13_uyde/pyobjc-framework-CoreServices/pyobjc_setup.py", line 231, in get_os_level
    subprocess.check_output(["/usr/bin/sw_vers", "-productVersion"])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 415, in check_output
    return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 493, in run
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 858, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1704, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/bin/sw_vers'

monomonnik

Yes, macOS only.

From the GitHub page: ‘This module only works on Mac OS as it requires PyObjC, AppKit, CoreText Quartz and more.’

frederik

DrawBot is mac only... that will not change fast as we got now a super high level of typographic support...

However Just started drawBotSkia which has a subset of the DrawBot api but uses skia as backend.

see https://github.com/justvanrossum/drawbot-skia

Maarten Idema

Great thanks gang. I'll look into Just's Skia stuff.