Re: [gexiv2] Installation on OSX

[Alan Pater <alan pater gmail com>]

Unfortunately I can't help much with compiling gexiv2, but have you
seen http://www.py3exiv2.tuxfamily.org/?

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:09 AM, Simon Bächler <b chler com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am working on a library where I need to extract XMP metadata from an image
> file with Python. I’m currently using PyExiv2 but this library is deprecated
> and the authors suggest moving to Gexiv2.
>
> I am having trouble installing gexiv2 and its Python wrapper on Mac OSX.
> Unfortunately the help links on the gexif2 Python support page are dead.
>
> There is a homebrew command for gexiv2, but on my system it hangs during the
> installation step. Verbose mode shows that the g-ir-scanner doesn’t
> complete. Also, the python bindings are not being built when using the
> homebrew formula.
>
> The compilation works when I clone the repo and build it myself. The python
> bindings were only built after I installed pygtk. (It would have been nice
> if this was mentioned in the docs somewhere.)
> The installer seems to correctly install the package in
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/overrides‘.
> But even then I am unable to import the module in Python.
>
> from gi.repository import GExiv2 fails with 'ImportError: cannot import name
> GExiv2‘.
>
> Has anyone managed to get this to work on a Mac?
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Simon
>
>
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