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Ken Giusti wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Doug Hellmann<doug at doughellmann.com>  wrote:
>> Excerpts from Ken Giusti's message of 2015-04-15 09:31:18 -0400:
>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Joshua Harlow<harlowja at outlook.com>  wrote:
>>>> Ken Giusti wrote:
>>>>> Just to be clear: you're asking specifically about the 0-10 based
>>>>> impl_qpid.py driver, correct?   This is the driver that is used for
>>>>> the "qpid://" transport (aka rpc_backend).
>>>>>
>>>>> I ask because I'm maintaining the AMQP 1.0 driver (transport
>>>>> "amqp://") that can also be used with qpidd.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, the AMQP 1.0 driver isn't yet Python 3 compatible due to its
>>>>> dependency on Proton, which has yet to be ported to python 3 - though
>>>>> that's currently being worked on [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm planning on porting the AMQP 1.0 driver once the dependent
>>>>> libraries are available.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-490
>>>>
>>>> What's the expected date on this as it appears this also blocks python 3
>>>> work as well... Seems like that hasn't been updated since nov 2014 which
>>>> doesn't inspire that much confidence (especially for what appears to be
>>>> mostly small patches).
>>>>
>>> Good point.  I reached out to the bug owner.  He got it 'mostly
>>> working' but got hung up on porting the proton unit tests.   I've
>>> offered to help this along and he's good with that.  I'll make this a
>>> priority to move this along.
>>>
>>> In terms of availability - proton tends to do releases about every 4-6
>>> months.  They just released 0.9, so the earliest availability would be
>>> in that 4-6 month window (assuming that should be enough time to
>>> complete the work).   Then there's the time it will take for the
>>> various distros to pick it up...
>>>
>>> so, definitely not 'real soon now'. :(
>> This seems like a case where if we can get the libs we need to a point
>> where they install via pip, we can let the distros catch up instead of
>> waiting for them.
>>
>
> Sadly just the python wrappers are available via pip.  Its C extension
> requires that the native proton shared library (libqpid-proton) is
> available.   To date we've relied on the distro to provide that
> library.

How does that (c extension) work with eventlet? Does it?

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>> Similarly, if we have *an* approach for Python 3 on oslo.messaging, that
>> means the library isn't blocking us from testing applications with
>> Python 3. If some of the drivers lag, their test jobs may need to be
>> removed or disabled if the apps start testing under Python 3.
>>
>> Doug
>>
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