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.
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.
Perhaps it would be better to add Mathias' fork as a separate new package?
That was my thinking, I'll submit review request.
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.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle. Changing version to '26'.
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.
Seems like a good plan, I resubmitted fabric3 for review in #1572928
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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)
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
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle. Changing version to '29'.
fabric is now Python 3 only, at least in Rawhide.