[+1] Release Apache Libcloud 3.4.1 On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 9:26 AM Tomaz Muraus <to...@tomaz.me> wrote:
> This is a voting thread for Libcloud v3.4.1 > (28d3785c996bd8ff56b508518bb06dbe3f4466eb, [ > https://github.com/apache/libcloud/tree/v3.4.1-tentative,](https://github.com/apache/libcloud/tree/v3.4.1-tentative) > https://github.com/apache/libcloud/compare/v3.4.0...3.4.x). > > As described in a voting thread for v3.4.0, that release contains a > regression which breaks installation under Python 3.5. > > In addition to that, setup.py metadata contains a very strict requirement > for the requests library which means that release can't be installed in a > lot of places where they already have a conflicting dependency on older > requests version (that's quite common). > > This release fixes both of the issues by relaxing requests minimum version > requirement (aka we now depend on >= 2.5.0 which is the same thing was we > did in the past). > > There is still an ongoing discussion as far as requests chardet dependency > license issue goes without a clear conclusion yet ( > https://github.com/apache/libcloud/issues/1594#issuecomment-966627964, > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-572?focusedCommentId=17442504&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel > ). > > Depending on the outcome there, we may not have a choice, but need to do > another release which requires ``requests >= 2.26.0``, but that would mean > we can't support Python 3.5 anymore (which we still planned to do for the > v3.4.x series) and also break installation of the latest Libcloud version > in a lot of environments where they depend on a conflicting requests > version. > > Release artifacts can be found at > https://www.tomaz.me/misc/libcloud/v3.4.1/index.html > > Please test the release and post your votes. Since it's a bug fix release, > I would like to get it out as soon as possible. > > +/- 1 > [ ] Release Apache Libcloud 3.4.1
