RFE: Support later versions of jmespath 0.9

[akkornel]

Hello!

I am looking at how hard it would be for Globus to be ported to FreeBSD, and I found two dependency issues that would need to be addressed, with click and jmespath.

jmespath has a hard dependency on version 0.9.2, but that version is not available in FreeBSD-land right now: FreeBSD 11 has 0.9.3 as a package, and the ports tree has version 0.9.4.

I did a quick check on the jmespath changelog, and 0.9.3 and 0.9.4 only seem to be bugfix releases. So, I was wondering if it is possible for the jmespath dependency to be changes to jmespath>=0.9.2,<1.0?

There is also an upcoming issue with click: The details on why not to change the dependencies were already covered in #453, so I won't rehash it here. As an FYI, FreeBSD 11 ships with a 6.7 version of click, but the latest version available in the ports tree is 7.0. So, not an issue right now.

[sirosen]

I'm a little bit confused about what's being asked here.

... that version is not available in FreeBSD-land right now ...

I'm not sure how this is relevant to the CLI? It's a python package, so if you pip install it, you should be pulling package versions from pypi.
Are you trying to build a native FreeBSD package from an sdist or similar?

If you install the CLI into a separate virtualenv, I think that's much more likely to be successful than trying to reconcile it with various platform requirements. e.g.

virtualenv --python=python3 /opt/globus/cli_venv
source /opt/globus/cli_venv/bin/activate
pip install globus-cli
ln -s /opt/globus/cli_venv/bin/globus /usr/local/bin/globus

And that way you get an isolated install of globus-cli, available via /usr/local/bin/ with no system package conflicts.

[xylar]

I would also concur that having more recent versions of jmespath supported would be helpful. Currently, 0.9.2 has not been built for python 3.7 on conda-forge, meaning that globus-cli cannot be installed with conda-forge and python 3.7. I'm going to ask for a noarch build of jmespath 9.2.0 but it's much easier to maintain globus-cli as part of a larger python ecosystem if the dependencies remain relatively current.