Python version and the AD DC

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 17:16 +0100, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> it seems since a19d5bd771c1727b037d28d24af0b85e49bdafb2 samba-tool
> and therefor 
> the AD DC requires Python 3, is this correct?
> 
> Is this intentional? With all the recent good work on the Python
> stuff it was a 
> little hard to keep up with mails and follow on the trail, so I
> assume I missed 
> some relevant mails. :)
> 
> WHATSNEW only mentions that the default changes to Python 3.
> 
> *scratches head*

It is supported for installed use.  For in-tree development you need to
set PYTHON=python2

$ PYTHON=python2 ./configure --prefix=/tmp/prefx && PYTHON=python2 make
-j && PYTHON=python2 make install 

$ /tmp/prefx/bin/samba-tool 
Usage: samba-tool <subcommand>

Main samba administration tool.
...

$ head /tmp/prefx/bin/samba-tool -n 3
#!/usr/bin/env python2

# Unix SMB/CIFS implementation.


I hope this clarifies things.  It certainly wasn't intended to be
'easy' to stay on python2, as a developer, but for end-users with no
other options it should remain possible.  However this is a really good
example of why we should switch as soon as possible to just one Python
release.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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