On 09/13/2017 11:10 PM, Jason Zaman wrote:
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 08:06:28PM +0200, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Chris PeBenito <pebenito@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I believe that all major SELinux distributions have at least Python 3.4
support. Python 3 changeover has gone so long that even 3.3 is about to go
end-of-life [1]. Can we officially drop Python 2.7 support in userspace
code?
I'd like to drop support for everything older than Python 3.4 in SETools.
[1]
http://blog.python.org/2017/09/python-337rc1-is-now-available-prior-to.html
When I updated the Arch Linux packages for the last release, I tried
to use Python 3 everywhere and there was one component which required
Python 2: selinux-gui [1], because PyGtk is not compatible with Python
3. After a quick search I found https://askubuntu.com/a/97107 : "PyGTK
has been deprecated in favor of PyGI+GTK. Because of that, a version
of PyGTK for Python 3 was never written."
I will try to port selinux-gui to PyGI [2] in order to reduce the
dependency towards Python 2. Before I start this work, are there
already other people working on this? More precisely there have been
some patches/commits related to this, like 9a57996dfa9a ("sandbox: Use
GObject introspection binding instead of pygtk2") and 917f398d7cd2
("policycoreutils: Use GObject introspection binding instead of
python-gobject in selinux_server.py") and I am wondering whether their
authors also looked at selinux-gui (and command
system-config-selinux).
Cheers,
Nicolas
[1] directory gui/ of https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux
[2] with ideas from
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/PyGObject/IntrospectionPorting
This sounds about right. I know for sure all the commandline and
important selinux stuff all works with python3. I dont really use
selinux-gui. I didnt port it over when i did the big 2to3 patches since
I dont really know gtk. I think some of the redhat guys did some fixes
for it but not sure how comprehensive.
I have a mild preference for porting that to py3 before dropping it but
I havent heard any issues on the gentoo side about py3 support since the
last release so its probably fine.
Can the one that drops py2 be version 4.2? then if there do happen to be
any small bugfixes they can continue on 4.1.x?
That was my plan, as I want to use a few py3-specific features finally.
--
Chris PeBenito
