Coffee for AROS - joint thread
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 2 months ago@coffeecat Then I need to adjust my targets and maybe support both from the start. Sorry that I'm asking- I need to catch up on the basics. I made too many assumptions up front.
That would be preferred. Possibly you could release "limited" version for AROS One users right now and full version for mainline.
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Ideally, I'd prefer to build against mainline and know that users will get those, e.g., 3-6 months from now. For the package manager I work on, I will consider building the package from source. (GentooAROS
Sounds interesting .
If this would be something like a publicly available build service, possibly more developers would be interested. 1 user reacted to this post
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cdimauroMember@coffeecat -
Python 3.14 on AROS - a small progress report and a question
CPython 3.14.7 build for mainline AROS x86_64, cross-compiled from macOS. I'm still learning how AROS works, but a few useful things are running in the guest:
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[*]The interpreter, REPL, and some standard-library functionality
[*]Sockets, DNS, and HTTPS through urllib, with certificate verification
[*]A small API client and a single-threaded HTTP server
[*]Offline installation of a pure-Python wheel with pip, tested with pyfiglet although cleanup still produces warnings
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Threaded sockets need more work, subprocess launching is currently disabled, and additional C extensions cannot be loaded dynamically. The interpreter includes the available C modules. Installing pure-Python wheels directly from PyPI is still untested.
Even so, it seems useful for file tools, processing JSON, and talking to web APIs.
Indeed. It's already a GREAT achievement. Kudos!
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What would you use Python for on AROS?
I've no time to dedicate for tinkering, but Python can be used from a "system language" (replacing the script used for the installer) up to controlling Blender.
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Any small scripts or packages worth testing?
BeautifulSoup for web scraping, for example.
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One question about dynamic loading
Looking through the sources, I noticed that LoadSeg already loads and relocates ELF ET_REL objects, while dlopen/dlsym appear unimplemented in posixc.
Could that be a starting point for loading AROS-built Python extensions? I assume resolving symbols from the interpreter is only part of the problem, with initialization, dependencies, and relocations to consider too.
I'm probably missing some history or technical details here. Has anyone explored this already? I mean extensions compiled for AROS, of course, not running Linux wheels.
Sorry, but I've no experience on that.
coffeecatMember
Posted 2 months ago
And Python for mainline should be available for testing in the next couple of days. I will need to check updates if it will be possible to launch it on Aros One.
Edited by coffeecat on 16-09-2026 13:31, 2 months ago
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cdimauroMemberUpdates? There are big updates next month: Python 3.15 will be released (with an enhance JIT). 
coffeecatMember
Posted 2 months ago
Burntime Remastered for x86_64 (aarch64 and others later) is also close.
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Posted 2 months ago
Feeling nostalgic yet?
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Posted 1 month agoNot sure how well it will work and if at all, but a test with Pragtical (https://github.com/pragtical/pragtical) works:
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And I took on Skia which seems to work as well in the CPU mode on ABIv11 (Skia is the basis for e.g. Chromium/Chrome and several other apps)
https://github.com/google/skia
And I took on Skia which seems to work as well in the CPU mode on ABIv11 (Skia is the basis for e.g. Chromium/Chrome and several other apps)
https://github.com/google/skia
Edited by amigamia on 21-09-2026 05:53, 1 month ago
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coffeecatMember
Posted 1 month ago
Hello AROS.
So, who's coming to AROS to make the next Stardew Valley? (it's still far from being usable, but frontend and Skia works)
Edited by coffeecat on 21-09-2026 14:57, 1 month ago
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Posted 1 month ago
Edited by coffeecat on 21-09-2026 17:05, 1 month ago
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 1 month agocoffeecatMember
Posted 1 month ago
Now with annotation superpowers
- Opens PDF files (1.x and 2.0) through MuPDF 1.28.4: embedded and base-14 fonts, vector graphics, JPEG/JPEG 2000/JBIG2 images, ICC-based colour
- Zune/MUI window with an Amiga-style menu: Project (Open, Save, Save As, About, About MUI, Quit) and Edit (Copy, Copy as Image, Highlight, Find, Find Next), plus a right-button context menu on the pages
- Opening via command line, an ASL file requester, or dragging a file icon from Workbench onto the window
- Continuous vertical scrolling of all pages, with pages of different sizes
- Thumbnail sidebar with page numbers and current-page marker; click to jump; sidebar width follows a draggable divider and the window size
- Page counter with Previous/Next buttons
- Keyboard navigation: cursor keys, PgUp/PgDn, Space, Home/End, Left/Right for pages; mouse wheel (written, not yet tested)
- Text selection by dragging, across page boundaries, with auto-scroll at the view edges
- Copy selected text to the clipboard as IFF FTXT (8-bit CHRS plus a UTF-8 chunk); read back correctly by the system Clip command
- Copy a rectangle as a 24-bit ILBM image to the clipboard (file is well-formed; MultiView shows it blank - unresolved)
- Text search with Find / Find Next; hits framed on the page
- Highlight selected text as a yellow PDF annotation, saved into the file
- Save in place incrementally (original bytes preserved) or Save As to a new file; unsaved changes are confirmed before opening another file or quitting
- Lazy rendering with a bounded cache; render times shown with -t; a 22-page paper renders at ~0.1–0.2 s per page under emulation
To be released soon.
Over time I will try to make it into a proper PDF reader/creator. Feature requests welcome.
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Posted 1 month agojonxJunior Member
Posted 1 month agoEdited by jonx on 22-09-2026 08:14, 1 month ago
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