Over the years I have tried to keep a “working” installer for the GoPiGo3 API as the PiOS and Ubuntu OS released annual versions.
There was a time that Dexter had to update the installer for Python 3, but the process remained pretty much the same:
- copy down the GoPiGo3 software
- run setup.py to build and install the various .egg files that the GoPiGo3 Python API needs
(I didn’t worry about the desktop graphical apps - just the API and examples were my focus)
Recently I started to get messages about “setup.py has been deprecated”, and have been seeing Python folks singing the praises for “uv” as a package installer and virtual environment manager.
Today I read:
Ouch - the GoPiGo3 has been obsolete for over a decade?