Hi, I built deb package for Debian from current trunk as of today and I wanted to test cqlsh and I got this error:
me@machine:/$ python --version Python 2.7.16 me@machine:/$ cqlsh -u cassandra -p cassandra --execute="select * from system_auth.roles" machine Usage: cqlsh.py [options] [host [port]] cqlsh.py: error: 'boot' is not a valid port number. This is Debian Buster. Please keep in mind that _without_ "--execute" / "-e", it just connects fine. So I think this is a bug. I am pretty sure this was working before. I wanted to try this against Python 3 and as I was digging deeper I saw that there was this set of changes merged recently (1) with this function specifically (2) Hence, I can see that there is support for Python 3.6 and 2.7. My question is why are we so strict when it comes to the version of Python 3? Secondly, if this project is building debs for Debian (I suppose so), what version of Debian it is actually built for then as there is not 3.6 version of Python out of the box for any release. For example, quickly looking here (3), there is Python 3.7 for Buster and 2.7 for Stretch, Jessie and even Wheezy. But no 3.6! You can check official Python version here (4) If I understand this correctly, this means that if one installs a deb and he wants to run it with Python 3.6 (the only Python version this cqlsh supports), he can not install it from repositories but he has to chase that Python version himself and build it from source and so on and so on ... Could we either make this compatible with 3.7 and switch to that version or delete so specific requirement (3.6) from the code? I humbly think that if we distribute debs we should also say what release we are targetting and it should be possible to install it all by standard means from the repos. Regards (1) https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/bf9a1d487b9ba469e8d740cf7d1cd419535a7e79 (2) https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/bf9a1d487b9ba469e8d740cf7d1cd419535a7e79/bin/cqlsh#L57-L65 (3) https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian (4) https://packages.debian.org/stable/python/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
