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

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 4:34 PM Marcel Telka <marcel at telka.sk> wrote:

> 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.
>

Marcel is right, there were a few modules to ensure the transition from
Python 2 to Python 3 such as this one and other backport.* packages.
Migrating to Python 3 as default and obsoleting these transitional packages
should be enough.


>
>
> Regards.
>
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