Re: python2-docutils (0.13.1-2 version) missing scripts

Re: python2-docutils (0.13.1-2 version) missing scripts

[Daniel Fort]

Seems like a pay Peter to pay Paul situation. I was hesitant to use
python3-docutils but it turns out that it doesn't force you into
python3. Why not just do a python-docutils package to avoid confusion?
Aren't they just scripts that can run under either version of python?

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Re: python2-docutils (0.13.1-2 version) missing scripts

[Brian Inglis]

On 2017-07-28 17:55, Daniel Fort wrote:
> Seems like a pay Peter to pay Paul situation. I was hesitant to use
> python3-docutils but it turns out that it doesn't force you into
> python3. Why not just do a python-docutils package to avoid confusion?
> Aren't they just scripts that can run under either version of python?
Maybe? https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html

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Re: python2-docutils (0.13.1-2 version) missing scripts

[Ken Brown]

On 7/28/2017 7:55 PM, Daniel Fort wrote:
> Seems like a pay Peter to pay Paul situation. I was hesitant to use
> python3-docutils but it turns out that it doesn't force you into
> python3. Why not just do a python-docutils package to avoid confusion?
> Aren't they just scripts that can run under either version of python?

The scripts from python3-docutils have a shebang line that specifies 
python3.  If you invoke them by name (as opposed to 'python <script 
name>'), they will be run by python3.  It would be possible to package 
both versions by including the python version as part of the name, as is 
done with easy_install-2.7 and easy_install-3.6, for a good reason.  But 
I'm not aware of any such good reason to go to that trouble for the 
docutils scripts.

See 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Avoiding_collisions_between_the_python_2_and_python_3_stacks 
for a detailed discussion of how this issue is handled by Fedora.  In 
particular:

"If the executables provide the same functionality independent of 
whether they are run on top of Python 2 or Python 3, then only the 
Python 3 version of the executable should be packaged.  Transitioning 
from python2 to python3 is left to individual package maintainers...."

Ken

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python2-docutils (0.13.1-2 version) missing scripts

[Daniel Fort]

Hello Cygwin list,

All of the scripts are missing from the June 19 update of
python2-docutils (0.13.1-2 version).

Just a reminder--this was reported a while back but it is still in the
same state.

You can still go back one version on the Cygwin installer to the
0.13.1-1 version  that works fine or switch to python 3 but the
default behavior of the installer is to upgrade you to the latest,
broken, 0.13.1-2 version of python2-docutils.

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> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:39:48 +0300
> Subject: Re: rst2html missing from latest docutils
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>   bash# zgrep /bin /etc/setup/python2-docutils.lst.gz
>
>   bash# zgrep /bin /etc/setup/python3-docutils.lst.gz
>   usr/bin/
>   usr/bin/rst2html.py
>   usr/bin/rst2html5.py
>   usr/bin/rst2latex.py
>   usr/bin/rst2man.py
>   usr/bin/rst2odt.py
>   usr/bin/rst2odt_prepstyles.py
>   usr/bin/rst2pseudoxml.py
>   usr/bin/rst2s5.py
>   usr/bin/rst2xetex.py
>   usr/bin/rst2xml.py
>   usr/bin/rstpep2html.py

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Re: python2-docutils (0.13.1-2 version) missing scripts

[Ken Brown]

On 7/20/2017 8:32 PM, Daniel Fort wrote:
> All of the scripts are missing from the June 19 update of
> python2-docutils (0.13.1-2 version).

In the 0.13.1-1 release, the scripts were in python2-docutils but not 
python3-docutils.  (They can't be in both with the same names.)  Yaakov 
obviously decided to move them to python3-docutils for the 0.13.1-2 
release.  He can explain the rationale if he wants, but why don't you 
just install python3-docutils?  Is there some reason this doesn't work 
for you?

Ken

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