Re: Making Kerberos optional in the Python wheel

Hi Dave,

The patch looks good to me.

Thanks,
Khushboo

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:42 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> Has anyone been able to review this?
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:02 AM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Dave Page
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>>
>
> --
> Dave Page
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