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Bug 1370016 - Port fabric to Python 3
Summary: Port fabric to Python 3
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fabric
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Othman Madjoudj
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 1572928
Blocks: PYTHON3
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Reported: 2016-08-25 04:43 UTC by Craig Rodrigues
Modified: 2019-03-19 14:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-03-19 14:16:32 UTC
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Port Fabric to Python 3 (deleted)
2016-08-25 04:43 UTC, Craig Rodrigues
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Description Craig Rodrigues 2016-08-25 04:43:13 UTC
Created attachment 1193863 [details]
Port Fabric to Python 3

The maintainer of Fabric is not accepting patches which break compatibility with Python 2.5.  Mathias Ertl managed to port Fabric to Python 3, but these patches were not accepted:

https://github.com/fabric/fabric/issues/1378


Mathias then created a fork of Fabric which supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+:

https://github.com/mathiasertl/fabric


This port is actively maintained and follows the upstream fabric release schedule.
It has also been uploaded to pypi:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Fabric3/1.12.post1


As part of the Fedora effort to move to Python 3, I would like to request
that the default Fabric package in Fedora be moved the Mathias Ertl's fork.

Comment 1 Othman Madjoudj 2016-08-27 14:25:20 UTC
Looks good, however I see a potential issue in case we want to provide both Py2 and Py3 sub packages;

The .egg-info is not the same as the original Fabric which could raise dependency issues on some Py2 applications expecting the original Fabric library.

Comment 2 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2016-08-29 12:50:11 UTC
Perhaps it would be better to add Mathias' fork as a separate new package?

Comment 3 Othman Madjoudj 2016-08-29 19:20:43 UTC
That was my thinking, I'll submit review request.

Comment 4 Craig Rodrigues 2016-08-29 19:54:30 UTC
I strongly disagree with having a separate package for this,
and hope you don't go down this path.

Please talk to Mathias and ask him what he did to port Fabric to Python 3.

The items which he changed are very arcane things which the vast majority
of users do not use.

In my own projects, I switched from Fabric to Fabric3, and noticed no
differences.

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 10:09:09 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 6 Miro Hrončok 2018-04-25 10:46:30 UTC
Can we perhaps:

 1. package fabric3
 2. retire fabric
 3. make adjustments to fabric3 to provide and obsolete fabric, add a /usr/bin/fabric symblink?

Athmane, let me know if you are still interested.

Comment 7 Othman Madjoudj 2018-04-28 23:18:16 UTC
Seems like a good plan, I resubmitted fabric3 for review in #1572928

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Comment 9 Othman Madjoudj 2018-05-12 15:05:35 UTC
fabric 2.0 was released, it's compatible with Py3.
I guess I'll retire fabric3 since it conflicts with fabric (both use namespace /fabric)

Comment 10 Othman Madjoudj 2018-05-12 19:04:42 UTC
On second thought, we'll keep them both since:
- fabric2 can be installed in diff namespace
- fabric3 will provide v1 old API for application that are not compatible yet with fabric2

Comment 11 Jan Kurik 2018-08-14 11:08:59 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.

Comment 12 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-03-19 14:16:32 UTC
fabric is now Python 3 only, at least in Rawhide.


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