Bug#855552: [zeroc-ice] - missing python 2 bindings

[Mark Carroll]

For those coming back to this bug to see how to work around it, at the
moment for "pip install zeroc-ice" I find that I first have to install
extra packages like libbz2-dev and libssl-dev.

-- Mark

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Bug#855552: [zeroc-ice] - missing python 2 bindings

[Mark Carroll]

On 30 Mar 2017, Jose Gutierrez de la Concha wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Mark Carroll  wrote:
(snip)
>> says that they do not support Python 3 but OMERO 5.4 will no longer
>> support Ice 3.5 at all, which would leave me in a tricky situation.
>
> I will check if we can add this back, meanwhile you will be able to install
> python2
> extensions using pip https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zeroc-ice/3.6.3

Thank you very much for the tip on using, pip install zeroc-ice
as an alternative, that gives me a slice2py.

>> I did try using ZeroC's http://zeroc.com/download/apt/debian8 as an
>> alternative but their zeroc-ice-compilers_3.6.3-1000_amd64.deb doesn't
>> include slice2java. (I probably just don't know what I'm doing though!)
>
> That was a preliminary version that didn't include Java, just packaged
> C++/Python

Aha - well, it looked promising at first!

Cheers,

Mark

Bug#855552: [zeroc-ice] - missing python 2 bindings

[Jose Gutierrez de la Concha]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Mark Carroll  wrote:

> This is rather unfortunate -- a lot of the world is still on Python 2 -
> I didn't think it's meant to be EOL until 2020? I just ran into this in
> looking at installing the new version of OMERO -
> http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero/sysadmins/
> version-requirements.html
> says that they do not support Python 3 but OMERO 5.4 will no longer
> support Ice 3.5 at all, which would leave me in a tricky situation.
>

I will check if we can add this back, meanwhile you will be able to install
python2
extensions using pip https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zeroc-ice/3.6.3


> I did try using ZeroC's http://zeroc.com/download/apt/debian8 as an
> alternative but their zeroc-ice-compilers_3.6.3-1000_amd64.deb doesn't
> include slice2java. (I probably just don't know what I'm doing though!)
>

That was a preliminary version that didn't include Java, just packaged
C++/Python


>
> -- Mark
>



-- 
José Gutiérrez de la Concha
ZeroC, Inc.

Bug#855552: [zeroc-ice] - missing python 2 bindings

[Mark Carroll]

This is rather unfortunate -- a lot of the world is still on Python 2 -
I didn't think it's meant to be EOL until 2020? I just ran into this in
looking at installing the new version of OMERO -
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero/sysadmins/version-requirements.html
says that they do not support Python 3 but OMERO 5.4 will no longer
support Ice 3.5 at all, which would leave me in a tricky situation.

I did try using ZeroC's http://zeroc.com/download/apt/debian8 as an
alternative but their zeroc-ice-compilers_3.6.3-1000_amd64.deb doesn't
include slice2java. (I probably just don't know what I'm doing though!)

-- Mark

Bug#855552: [zeroc-ice] - missing python 2 bindings

[Jose Gutierrez de la Concha]

Hi,

When we (ZeroC) repackage Ice we decided to not include python2 binding,
there wasn't
any reverse depedencies for python-zeroc-ice package and Python policy
states that a python2
library can be remove in that case.

see
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-python3.html

Python 2 is still supported with Ice 3.6/3.7 Ice source distributions
but stretch is moving towards
Python3 and so we thing that removing python-zeroc-ice is a good trade-off

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 1:59 AM,  wrote:

> Package: zeroc-ice
>
> Version: 3.6.3-4
>
> Severity: normal
>
> Source: *zeroc-ice*
>
>
>
> Debian “stretch” no longer contains a package with python2 bindings. In
> previous releases this was available as ‘python-zeroc-ice’.
>
> The source package’s “rules” seem to have been completely re-written
> without the inclusion of python2. The source of zeroc 3.6 still supports
> python2/
>
> I can’t see this being is a deliberate choice as there is no trace in the
> “changelog” or an announcement for dropping this in NEWS.
>
>
>



-- 
José Gutiérrez de la Concha
ZeroC, Inc.

Bug#855552: [zeroc-ice] - missing python 2 bindings

[Malte.Marquarding]

Package: zeroc-ice
Version: 3.6.3-4
Severity: normal
Source: zeroc-ice

Debian “stretch” no longer contains a package with python2 bindings. In 
previous releases this was available as ‘python-zeroc-ice’.
The source package’s “rules” seem to have been completely re-written without 
the inclusion of python2. The source of zeroc 3.6 still supports python2/
I can’t see this being is a deliberate choice as there is no trace in the 
“changelog” or an announcement for dropping this in NEWS.