Re: Maintenance of pydap

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

Hi Sandro,

I engaged with the pydap community and I can confirm that the project
has moved on from the old 2.x API. Since pydap 3.x is now using a new
namespace (pydap instead of dap), then both package versions should be
co-installable.

Since I need the pydap 3.x API for hdf-compass, I propose to introduce
a new source package for it (which I am happy to maintain) and keep the
old source package alive until all reverse dependencies relying on 2.x
eventually move on.

Hoe does that sound?

Ghis

On 28/01/16 09:50, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> I believe upstream has moved on from the API of 2.x (dap namespace) to
> using 3.x (pydap namespace). My assumption is based on the facts that:
>
> 1) the upstream repository [1] provide tags for 3.x releases only,
> 2) active issues, such as Python 3 support, are milestoned for 3.2.x [2],
>
> [1] https://github.com/robertodealmeida/pydap
> [2] https://github.com/robertodealmeida/pydap/issues/7
>
> Since dap 2.x is no longer actively maintained, then the question is
> whether to introduce a new source package for pydap 3.x or just upgrade
> the current source package to 3.x and take care of the rdep for
> python-mpltoolkits.basemap.
>
> Thoughts?
> Ghis
>
>
> On 28/01/16 09:26, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > for a start, you can try to get upstream to reply to this (old)
> > question: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pydap/6A6q-Y6qwtE
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Ghislain Vaillant
> > <ghisvail@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Forwarding to d-python, as it seems like a more appropriate place to
> > > discuss this matter.
> > >
> > >
> > > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > > Subject: Maintenance of pydap
> > > Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:00:32 +0000
> > > From: Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>
> > > To: morph@debian.org
> > > CC: python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org
> > >
> > > Ciao Sandro,
> > >
> > > I recently got involved with the packaging of the HDF compass [1], a
> > > viewer for HDF5 written in Python and using pydap as an install
> > > dependency.
> > >
> > > The version of pydap currently packaged is too old to work with the
> > > compass, first because version 3.x apparently changed the module API
> > > from using `import dap` to `import pydap`.
> > >
> > > I saw the following bug report [2] requesting an update of the package,
> > > but it was not acted upon or acknowledged. I am thereby contacting you
> > > to know whether the package was still actively maintained on your end.
> > >
> > > If you have lost interest in maintaining this package, myself and the
> > > Debian Science Team would be interested in taking over, since both
> > > hdf-compass and pydap are science related.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, please allow me to request an update to this package so I
> > > can carry on with my packaging work on hdf-compass.
> > >
> > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812434
> > > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788508
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Ghis