> On 14 Nov 2016, at 13:25, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On 11/10/2016 09:42 PM, Barry Scott wrote: >>>>> In this bug >>>>> >>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360797 >>>>> >>>>> It is implied that rpkg has an unspecified problem with GitPython 2.0. >>>>> >>>>> This is preventing the maintainer from updating to the any GitPython 2 >>>>> release. >>>>> >>>>> I'd like to know if there is in fact a problem with rpkg with GitPython >>>>> 2.0. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Import error here. >>>> >>>> File "/root/code/rpkg/pyrpkg/__init__.py", line 14, in <module> >>>> import git >>>> File "/root/rpkg-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/git/__init__.py", line >>>> 38, in <module> >>>> from git.config import GitConfigParser # @NoMove @IgnorePep8 >>>> File "/root/rpkg-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/git/config.py", line 25, >>>> in <module> >>>> from git.util import LockFile >>>> File "/root/rpkg-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/git/util.py", line 18, in >>>> <module> >>>> from unittest.case import SkipTest >>>> ImportError: No module named case >>>> >>>> GitPython >= 2 cannot work with Python 2.6 at all. >>> >>> So on a system where you want to use rpkg with python 2.6 use GitPython 1. >>> >>> But that is no reason to stop updating GitPython 2 for Fedora 24 where >>> python 2.7 >>> Is used for rpkg right? > > Take 2. > > If the API is the same between the releases I don't see why it > wouldn't be OK, presumably the reason why is has been held at that > older version is that the API isn't compatible and would need someone > to do a patch for rpkg to support both versions/APIs and I suspect > that is that people haven't had the resource (time or otherwise) to do > that.
My exprience with contribting to GitPython is tha backward compatibility was very important for any improvement. I was hoping to find out if there is in fact a patch to rpkg is required. Barry > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
