On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 4:34 PM Marcel Telka <mar...@telka.sk> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 07:16:18PM +0200, s...@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. > > -- > +-------------------------------------------+ > | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | > | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | > +-------------------------------------------+ > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-...@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
