Re: [tipc-discussion] tipc.py

[Jon M. <jm...@re...>]

On 10/5/20 12:35 AM, Hoang Huu Le wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> I will make an effort on this. Do you think we need to keep these APIs compatibility work with Python2 or completely remove out?
Great! To me you can just update the current code and don't worry about 
compatibility.
If anybody has used the current module they will have their own copy, 
and I cannot imagine that anybody will write new programs for Puthon 2 
by now.

Regards
///jon

>
> Regards,
> Hoang
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jon Maloy <jm...@re...>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2020 5:59 AM
>> To: Hoang Huu Le <hoa...@de...>; tip...@li...; tipc-dek <tip...@de...>; Xin
>> Long <luc...@gm...>; Ying Xue <yin...@wi...>
>> Subject: Re: tipc.py
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/1/20 11:04 PM, Hoang Huu Le wrote:
>>> Hi Jon,
>>>
>>> I've done this a long time ago:
>>> 5057f8bb4de0 tipcutils: introduce python api
>>>
>>> Basically, it works with Python 2.
>> Do you think it you would have time to do this for Python 3?
>> Python 2 is practically dead now, as we all know.
>>
>> Regards
>> ///jon
>>> Regards,
>>> Hoang
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Jon Maloy <jm...@re...>
>>>> Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 4:56 AM
>>>> To: tip...@li...; tipc-dek <tip...@de...>; Xin Long <luc...@gm...>; Ying Xue
>>>> <yin...@wi...>
>>>> Subject: tipc.py
>>>>
>>>> I am updating the programmer's manual, and realized that the Python API
>>>> is missing.
>>>> Since there are so many programmers knowing Python nowadays, but not C,
>>>> I think it would
>>>> be very useful to have this API in the manual, so those programmers can
>>>> get a feeling
>>>> for how simple it to use TIPC.
>>>>
>>>> Tuong started development of an API based on the libtipc C-API, but it
>>>> seems to me it was never finished.
>>>> However, Python does since a long time have native TIPC support,
>>>> allegedly both in Python 2 and Pyton 3.
>>>> I had never seen that API until now, but after some googling I came over
>>>> the following link, that seems to contain
>>>> that native implemenation:
>>>>
>>>> https://blitiri.com.ar/p/pytipc/
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if anybody has the time to try this one, and verify, using the
>>>> examples, that it really works.
>>>> It would be embarrassing to add this to the manual if it turns out it
>>>> doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> ///jon
>>>>
>>>> PS. Does anybody volunteer to be become co-maintainer of the home page
>>>> and project page
>>>>          at SourceForge? I think we should even consider moving it to
>>>> GitLab or GitHub.
>>>>          Since we have our own domain (tipc.io) that could easily be
>>>> re-steered to a different
>>>>          host system.