[oi-dev] FLAG-DAY: We started to obsolete python 2.7 and 3.5

[Marcel Telka]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 07:16:18PM +0200, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
> 
> Part of the problem is, I think, that there is no maintainer any longer, as far as I know, for the mkdocs component in oi-userland.
> 
> If someone knows how to build mkdocs with python 3 (which is perhaps possible, I don't know, I have no experience with building python components) then this would solve most of the problem, I think ...
> 
> Thanks for your work on this, because as I confirmed, there are indeed really issues with the mkdocs python2.7.
> 
> Several people related to the oi-docs are aware that we have a Python 2.7 problem, but we are unsure how to fix it, I think.
> 
> For example in my Vagrantfile I have a comment about a missing 2.7 'futures' component:
> 
> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/vagrantfiles/blob/main/oi-docs/Vagrantfile
> 
> 	# there used to be a futures package in the repo ...
> 	# library/python/futures seems to have a problem now
>         pfexec pkg install -v \
> 		git lynx links\
> 		library/python/futures \
> 		library/python/mkdocs \
> 		developer/documentation-tool/mdl
> 	# as of 21/9/2021 futures IPS is missing so install by pip
> 	pfexec pip install futures
> 
> Because such "pip install" actions print a clear warning by Python that we are using an unsupported Python 2.7, it is clear that something must be done.

The futures python package was obsoleted in May 2021 in OpenIndiana.
The reason is, apparently, this - see https://pypi.org/project/futures/:

It does not work on Python 3 due to Python 2 syntax being used in the
codebase. Python 3 users should not attempt to install it, since the
package is already included in the standard library.


Regards.

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