I'm supportive of this CEP. And thanks for all the maintenance on this over the years!
Knowing nothing about the pypi release/publish process, I'm curious how you would stage and then publish the signed convenience package. Background: what we publish post-release-vote needs to be signed and identical to what is staged when the release vote starts. See the two scripts prepare_release.sh and finish_release.sh in https://github.com/apache/cassandra-builds/tree/trunk/cassandra-release , where all the packaging is done in prepare_ and finish_ is just about pushing what's in staging to the correct public locations. I am assuming that the CEP would be patching these two files, as well as adding files in-tree to the pylib/ directory On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 18:18, Brad <bscho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As per the CEP process guidelines, I'm starting a formal DISCUSS thread to > resume the conversation started here[1]. > > The developers who maintain the Python CQLSH client on the official Python > PYPI repository would like to integrate and donate their open source work > to the Apache Cassandra project so it can be more tightly and seamlessly > integrated. > > The Apache Cassandra project pre-dates the adoption in Python 3.4 of PyPI > as the default package manager. As a result, an unofficial distribution has > been provided by a group of developers who have maintained the repository > there since October 2013. > > The installable version of CQLSH on PyPI.org allows end users to install a > cqlsh client with PIP - no tarball or path setup required. I.e., > > $ pip install cqlsh > > This popular package has 50K downloads per month and is today maintained > by Jeff Wideman and Brad Schoening. The PYPI package is updated upon every > major release by simply repackaging the CQLSH that ships with every > Cassandra release. > > CQLSH PyPI Repository: https://pypi.org/project/cqlsh/ > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pypi.org/project/cqlsh/__;!!PbtH5S7Ebw!Zlneg-wAg-i69cUOjOGZ2sppmSq0Yofe9AaPf2BZgtNQ-gfBVWCT8Wem23iAhpBrf4fXNyehbeJCLwQ$> > > > This CEP Proposal suggests incorporating PYPI as a regular part of the > Cassandra release process and making the CQLSH project on PYPI an official > distribution point. > > The full CEP can be reviewed at: > > Wiki: CEP-35: Add PIP support for CQLSH > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=263425995> > . > > Jira: CASSANDRA-18654 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18654> > > > But in brief, the proposal will: > > - Add PyPI.org as an official distribution point for CQLSH > - Allow end users to install CQLSH with simply 'pip install cqlsh' on > MacOS, Windows and Linux platforms. > - Donate the modest amount of existing configuration files by the > authors to Apache Cassandra > - This only involves the Python CQLSH client, no changes to > distribution of Java server side code and tools are involved. > > We welcome further discussion and suggestions regarding this proposal on > the mailing list here. > > Regards, > > Jeff Widman & > Brad Schoening > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/sy3p2b2tncg1bk6x3r0r60y10dm6l18d > <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra7caa1dd42ccaa04bcabfbc33233995c125c655f9a3cdb2c7bd8e9f7%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E> >
