Re: Which lockfile library for ‘python-daemon’? (was: Adding support for backward-incompatible ‘lockfile’)

[Thomas Spura]

2014-08-04 9:02 GMT+02:00 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>:

> On 10-May-2012, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > After ‘lockfile’ version 0.9 was released on PyPI, ‘python-daemon’
> > version 1.6 was initially released to use it. But that version of
> > ‘lockfile’ was, according to its maintainer, never meant to be
> > released, and contained backward-incompatible changes. Soon
> > afterward, I reverted ‘python-daemon’ so that the previous version
> > (1.5.5) was the latest on PyPI.
>
> The issue remains unaddressed after the report was filed in 2010
> <URL:https://code.google.com/p/pylockfile/issues/detail?id=4>.
>
> I understand the ‘lockfile’ library is effectively unmaintained; its
> latest lead developer has AFAIK not succeeded in finding a suitable
> successor, and has no interest in continuing maintenance of the
> project.
>
> So ‘python-daemon’ requirements for a lockfile implementation are in a
> kind of limbo: the current code base (with versions up to 1.6.1)
> recommends ‘lockfile’ 0.9, but this version doesn't work. So recent
> versions of ‘python-daemon’ are not advertised on PyPI.
>

>From the report above:
"""

The official public releases are on PyPI.

"""

On PyPI is lockfile 0.9.1, which seems to work fine.


>
> The PyPI entry for ‘python-daemon’ does not advertise any version
> later than 1.5.5, which works only with lockfile 0.8 or earlier.
>
> Users of ‘python-daemon’: What lockfile implementation are you using?
> How are you getting it to work with the API?
>
> With ‘lockfile’ no longer suitable, what should be the recommended
> lockfile library for future releases of ‘python-daemon’?
>
>
I didn't check it, but it seems lockfile-0.9.1 seems to work fine with
python-daemon-1.6 and the tests pass.

Why isn't python-daemon-1.6.1 listed as most recent version on PyPI?

Greetings,
   Tom
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