[bug#51314] [PATCH 00/29] Add Octoprint (web UI for 3d printers).

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 07:44:53PM +0000, Vinicius Monego wrote:
> Em seg, 2021-11-08 às 22:38 +0200, Efraim Flashner escreveu:
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 03:51:00AM +0000, Vinicius Monego wrote:
> > > This patchset adds the Octoprint web UI to control 3d printers.
> > > 
> > > Octoprint itself bundles font-awesome. I removed it in a snippet,
> > > don't know how much it would affect usability. I haven't found
> > > other bundles with license issues.
> > > 
> > > Some of the updates have newer versions but I'm updating to "older"
> > > versions to maintain compatibility with octoprint. See the comment
> > > in the octoprint package.
> > 
> > Looking at some of the comments here¹ it looks like they're using old
> > versions mostly to retain python2 compatibility. On the other hand
> > they
> > also have a comment about not having checked newer versions yet for
> > for
> > breaking changes, which IMO is their job. Other than flask-login and
> > netaddr I don't see a reason to not try with some of the newer
> > versions
> > of the packages. I would feel better if they only marked their own
> > dependencies and not transitive dependencies.
> > 
> > I think it makes sense to try newer versions and to add older
> > versions
> > on an as-needed basis, especially since some of these packages are
> > likely to be upgraded again at some point before the next version of
> > octoprint.
> > 
> > ¹ https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/blob/1.7.0/setup.py#L17
> > 
> 
> This is my report for the updates:
> 
> I updated python-colorlog, python-zeroconf, python-watchdog and python-
> wrapt to latest versions.
> 
> The update on python-zeroconf will likely break pulseaudio-dlna which
> depends on python2-zeroconf. Upstream also abandoned the project and it
> now lives in a fork that can be found here¹. Packaging the fork will
> require packaging python-pyroute2 which seems to lead to another chain
> of new packages.
> 
> Updating Flask to version 2.0 will require updates on python-
> itsdangerous, python-werkzeug and python-jinja2, which would have to
> rebuild 600+ packages.

That's a pretty good reason to leave flask at 1.x. When we do add 2.x we
might also end up keeping a python-flask-1 for a while during a
transition.

> I tried to update python-websockets-client to latest version but the
> tests hung and I couldn't figure out why.
> 
> I'll send a v2 soon.
> 
> ¹ https://github.com/Cygn/pulseaudio-dlna/

My concern was more about if the newer versions of the python packages
would work with octoprint.

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