Samba and Python 3 (Was: Port pytalloc to Python 3)

Petr Viktorin pviktori at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 07:18:28 MST 2015


On 01/12/2015 02:58 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:08:52AM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 18:03 +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> On 12/05/2014 11:10 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 11:04 +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're asking why *I* don't hold off porting Samba, it's because
>>>>> Samba it's a part of the Fedora Live DVD, and the goal is to remove
>>>>> Python 2 from that completely. Porting FreeIPA can wait until later,
>>>>> when we try to tackle the entire distro.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, that is helpful context.  It has been fun to see Samba become a
>>>> core and required project for Linux, but it has me curious:  What on the
>>>> live DVD is using our python bindings?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the question, and sorry for my late answer.
>>>
>>> The live DVD uses the Samba client. That depends on libsamba-net, where
>>> "join" and "vampire" use param/provision.c, which imports the provision
>>> Python module.
>>
>> While I'm hesitant to do anything that makes python 'non-core' for Samba
>> (I want to see us use it more, not less), can you be specific about what
>> is using the python tools or bindings?  Could all this be put off by
>> simply not shipping samba-tool on the live DVD?
>
> That is a good point. I think the only reason we have Python in libsamba-net at
> the moment is to invoke the provision scripts. This is not necessary for any of
> the client side SMB code. If you just need the client side SMB code,
> perhaps we can split libsamba-net, so you can just ship the client-only side?

Yes, it might be a packaging-only fix after all. I'm looking into it, 
it's just going somewhat slowly, as I need to familiarize myself with 
the codebase at the same time. Thanks Andrew for pushing me in this 
direction!


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Petr³



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