On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 5:36 PM John Spray <jspray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 5:42 PM Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 8:01 AM, kefu chai <tchaikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 7:32 PM John Spray <jspray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > > >> I was just trying out the new cephfs-shell, and found that the python2 > > >> version of cmd2 (0.6.8) in Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 27 does not have > > >> the with_argparser symbol that the shell imports. > > > > > > John, I learned from Patrick that cephfs-shell is only compatible with > > > python3. so probably, you could try it out with python3? > > > > This is right. Since it's a new project and py3-only environments are > > on the horizon, it didn't seem worth the trouble anymore to try to > > keep it py2 compatible. > > Is the plan to restrict cephfs-shell to certain distros, or to depend > on python3 everywhere? I think (may be out of date) that we don't > currently have python 3 as a runtime dependency for anything but the > python3-specific API bindings. that's also my impression. unless mgr is configured with "-DMGR_PYTHON_VERSION=3.x", we don't have python 3.x as runtime dependency. > > BTW, the python3-cmd2 package in Fedora 27 is also 0.6.8, so it seems > like there's an issue with that dependency irrespective of python > version. per Pavani, she will work on an alternative of `with_argparser`. see https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/23500#discussion_r209156786 . > > John > > > > > > > -- > > Patrick Donnelly -- Regards Kefu Chai