Re: Making Kerberos optional in the Python wheel

A big thumbs up from me at least :-).

On Thursday, 4 March 2021 10:02:00 GMT Dave Page wrote:
> There have been a couple of complaints that the latest Python wheel
> distribution doesn't install cleanly. This happens when there is no
> pre-built gssapi wheel on PyPi that matches the users combination of Python
> version and platform, *and* the MIT Kerberos development headers etc. are
> not present on the system, so the source wheel cannot be compiled.
>
> This seems like it's a bit onerous on users, especially if they're on
> Windows where they'll also need a suitable compiler to be installed. The
> attached patch aims to address that by making the Kerberos support optional
> (thankfully, Khushboo made the code handle lack of gssapi libraries).
>
> To install without gssapi, users would simply do:
>
> pip install pgadmin4
>
> or
>
> pip install pip install /path/to/pgadmin4-5.0-py3-none-any.whl
>
> To install with gssapi:
>
> pip install pgadmin4['kerberos']
>
> or
>
> pip install pip install /path/to/pgadmin4-5.0-py3-none-any.whl['kerberos']
>
> The patch also cleans up some old cruft that was required for now
> unsupported Python versions.
>
> Thoughts?