Re: python-socketio x gevent-socketio
Hi,
I orphaned gevent-websocket and William Grzybowski took over this
package. Therefore taking him into the loop.
Am Montag, den 03.12.2018, 22:20 -0200 schrieb Paulo Henrique Santana:
> Hi Python Team and Benjamin, could you give me some orientation to my
> issue below?
>
> A while ago I packaged [1] a software named Flask-SocketIO [2].
> It depends of other software named python-socketio, and I could find
> this package on Debian that time [3]. In fact this package is gevent-
> socketio software [4].
>
> But as you can see in this bug reported [5], Flask-SocketIO can't use
> gevent-socketio.
>
> From flask_socketio/__init__.py:
> if gevent_socketio_found:
> print('The gevent-socketio package is incompatible with
> this version of '
> 'the Flask-SocketIO extension. Please uninstall it,
> and then '
> 'install the latest version of python-socketio in
> its place.')
> sys.exit(1)
>
> The upstream (Miguel) that developed Flask-SocketIO has developed
> other python-socketio [6].
> So, I throught to package this python-socketio from Miguel to close
> the Flask-SocketIO bug.
>
> gevent-socketio seems to be stoped since 2016 and it does not seem to
> be update to Python 3. When I install it, it is under the tree:
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/socketio
>
> My package with python-socketio (from Miguel) uses namespace
> "socketio" too, and it would be under the tree:
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/socketio
>
> So. what is a good a solution to this?
> Keep my python-socketio on Python3 tree and gevent-socketio on
> Python2.7?
> Use Conflicts field to force the user to remove gevent-socketio
> before install python-socketio?
> Or other solution?
>
> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/flask-socketio
> [2] https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-SocketIO
> [3] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gevent-socketio
> [4] https://pypi.org/project/gevent-socketio/#files
> [5] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879631
> [6] http://github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio
IMO the best solution is to work together with upstream to resolve the
Python namespace conflict. Then both packages use different paths in
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages and can be installed and used in
parallel.
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