5 Sep
2022
5 Sep
'22
9:50 p.m.
Paul (or anybody) - has the -daemon (aka "-d") option been removed from
pyDECnet v596? It's still listed in the doc files, but running it gives
pydecnet: error: unrecognized arguments: --daemon
Bob
11 p.m.
On Sep 5, 2022, at 4:40 PM, Robert Armstrong
<bob(a)jfcl.com> wrote:
Right. It's documented that way in the installation instructions.
I suppose I could do this differently. For those features that have dependencies that are
optional, understand the switch or configuration flag even if it's not there, but then
reject the request with a message explaining the dependency.
So instead of "unrecognized arguments: --daemon" it would say something like:
--daemon not supported; install library package "python-daemon" to enable this
feature
It could given the "pip" command line to do that -- or is "install library
package x" clear enough?
paul
pydecnet: error: unrecognized
arguments: --daemon
Never mind. Turns out that you need to have the package python-daemon installed. If
you don’t have it then you won’t get any errors or complaints while installing pyDECnet,
but the –daemon option disappears.
11:32 p.m.
Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Right. It's documented that way in the installation instructions.
You're right - I went back and looked more carefully and it is documented. My
apologies...
--daemon not supported; install library package
"python-daemon" to enable this feature
Yes, I like that...
It could given the "pip" command line to do
that
I could probably deal with that part, but somebody else might need it. Or you could
always just say to RTFM, especially if you give the name of the relevant doc/...txt file.
BTW, since you're using Python3, shouldn't it be a "pip3" command?
Bob
6 Sep
6 Sep
1:55 a.m.
On Sep 5, 2022, at 5:32 PM, Robert Armstrong
<bob(a)jfcl.com> wrote:
No problem. There's a difference between "documented" and
"obvious" :-)
Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net>
wrote:
Right. It's documented that way in the installation instructions.
You're right - I went back and looked more carefully and it is documented. My
apologies... --daemon not
supported; install library package "python-daemon" to enable this feature
Yes, I like that...
It could given the "pip" command line
to do that
I could probably deal with that part, but somebody else might need it. Or you could
always just say to RTFM, especially if you give the name of the relevant doc/...txt file.
BTW, since you're using Python3, shouldn't it be a "pip3" command?
2:05 a.m.
Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Yes, though "pip" will alias to that if python 2 is not installed.
That is becoming somewhat more common.
I'm not a Python person, but on Debian and Ubuntu (and Mint, which is a
popular Ubuntu derivative) "python" and "pip" are still the v2
versions,
even with the latest distros. I think the fear is that it will break a
bunch of scripts if they change what "python" does.
Bob
12:17 p.m.
➜ pip --version
pip 22.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.10)
Ubuntu 22.04. Python3 is now the default.
-brian
On 06/09/22 01:05, Robert Armstrong wrote:
Paul Koning
<paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Yes, though "pip" will alias to that if python 2 is not installed.
That is becoming somewhat more common.
I'm not a Python person, but on
Debian and Ubuntu (and Mint, which is a
popular Ubuntu derivative) "python" and "pip" are still the v2
versions,
even with the latest distros. I think the fear is that it will break a
bunch of scripts if they change what "python" does.
Bob
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12:22 p.m.
On 06/09/22 00:55, Paul Koning wrote:
It could given the "pip" command line to do
that
At least on Ubuntu pip and python won't alias to pip3/python3 without
the package python-is-python3 installed.
-brian
I could probably deal with that part, but
somebody else might need it. Or you could always just say to RTFM, especially if you give
the name of the relevant doc/...txt file.
BTW, since you're using Python3, shouldn't it be a "pip3" command?
Yes, though "pip" will alias to that if python 2 is not installed. That
is becoming somewhat more common. 
10:05 p.m.
I seem to recall that it is (or at least was) canonically correct that "python"
should continue to bring up a Python 2 shell, and that "python3" is supposed to
be the correct way to get a Python 3 shell. It seems to me that the convention is honored
about half of the time, including on about half of my own computers. :)
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