[heketi-devel] Does anyone object to removing the python bindings for the Heketi client?

[Niels de Vos]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 07:12:33AM -0400, John Mulligan wrote:
> Hi Niels,
> 
> The Heketi python bindings should already be Python 3 compatible. I updated 
> them a while back and tried to make sure that they would be regularly tested 
> for both Python 2 and 3 compatibility via tox.
> My guess is that the RPM "doesn't know" this.

Ok, thanks! It seems I can change the .spec to use python3 and at least
it builds just fine (not sure what automated tests there are).

> If you really want to remove the RPM from Fedora because of lack of use I 
> suppose that might be OK, but the binding themselves will continue to exist 
> and I hope to use them more for tests in heketi's own repo.

If the intention is to use it only for testing, then I'll drop it.
Otherwise we can keep the Python bindings. What is your suggestion or
preference?

Niels


> On Sunday, July 29, 2018 2:47:54 PM EDT Niels de Vos wrote:
> > The Fedora package currently fails to build for Rawhide (Fedora 29)
> > because the python bindings under client/api/python have a requirement
> > on Python 2.
> > 
> > I do not know how much work it is to make the bindings compatible with
> > both Python 2 and 3. Before spending time on this, I would like to know
> > if there are any users of the Python bindings at all. In case nobody has
> > a use-case for the bindings, I propose we remove them from the
> > repository.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Niels
> 
> 
> 
> 
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