Check semver for "singularity version 3.2.1-1"

[Flamefire]

Make sure the following works for "singularity version 3.2.1-1"

cli.version_info() >= VersionInfo(3, 2, 1)

Just so we don't forget it.

[vsoch]

It doesn't, I manually tested it yesterday. I can tell you for sure it doesn't.

[vsoch]

See #120 (comment)

[vsoch]

We would probably have to compare it to VersionInfo(3,2,1,1) but then if someone installs (not from the release, but from the branch) and they get 3.2.1 (without the extra 1, as I have locally) it would again not work. Here is on my local machine:

from semver import VersionInfo

VersionInfo(3,2,1,1)
VersionInfo(major=3, minor=2, patch=1, prerelease=1, build=None)

from spython.main import Client

Client.version_info()
VersionInfo(major=3, minor=2, patch=1, prerelease=None, build=None)

print(Client.version_info())
3.2.1

Client.version_info() <= VersionInfo(3,2,1)
True

It actually errors out when I compare to 3.2.1-1

Client.version_info() <= VersionInfo(3,2,1,1)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-9-1f1090771d8f> in <module>()
----> 1 Client.version_info() <= VersionInfo(3,2,1,1)

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/semver-2.8.1-py3.6.egg/semver.py in __le__(self, other)
    143         if not isinstance(other, (VersionInfo, dict)):
    144             return NotImplemented
--> 145         return _compare_by_keys(self._asdict(), _to_dict(other)) <= 0
    146 
    147     def __gt__(self, other):

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/semver-2.8.1-py3.6.egg/semver.py in _compare_by_keys(d1, d2)
    250 
    251     rc1, rc2 = d1.get('prerelease'), d2.get('prerelease')
--> 252     rccmp = _nat_cmp(rc1, rc2)
    253 
    254     if not rccmp:

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/semver-2.8.1-py3.6.egg/semver.py in _nat_cmp(a, b)
    234 
    235     a, b = a or '', b or ''
--> 236     a_parts, b_parts = split_key(a), split_key(b)
    237     for sub_a, sub_b in zip(a_parts, b_parts):
    238         cmp_result = cmp_prerelease_tag(sub_a, sub_b)

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/semver-2.8.1-py3.6.egg/semver.py in split_key(key)
    221 
    222     def split_key(key):
--> 223         return [convert(c) for c in key.split('.')]
    224 
    225     def cmp_prerelease_tag(a, b):

AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'split'

[vsoch]

This weirdly works (but is wrong)

Client.version_info() <= VersionInfo(3,2,1-1)
False

[vsoch]

We face the same issue for 3.2.0, installed from the release:

from semver import VersionInfo                                          

VersionInfo(3,2,0)                                                      
VersionInfo(major=3, minor=2, patch=0, prerelease=None, build=None)

from spython.main import Client                                         

Client.version_info()                                                   
VersionInfo(major=3, minor=2, patch=0, prerelease='1', build=None)

print(Client.version_info())                                            
3.2.0-1

Client.version_info() > VersionInfo(3,2,0)                              
False

Client.version_info() >= VersionInfo(3,2,0)                             
False

[vsoch]

https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/issues/3653

[vsoch]

@Flamefire I reported the issue above. I'm not sure what we can actually do for this - the official releases for Singularity 3.2.1, 3.2.0 are in fact tagged as pre-releases and wrong.

[Flamefire]

Leave this one to me. IMO '3.2.1-1' >= ' 3.2.1' should hold. I'll have to check the implementation and with semver maintainers.

FTR:

• "prelealease" is a string: VersionInfo(3,2,1,1) -> VersionInfo(3,2,1,"1"). I'll suggest to semver to parse that accordingly
• VersionInfo(3,2,1-1) is VersionInfo(3,2,0) so nothing weird there ;)

[Flamefire]

Correction: '3.2.1-1' <= ' 3.2.1' holds due to https://semver.org/ §11:

When major, minor, and patch are equal, a pre-release version has lower precedence than a normal version

So we should just compare to VersionInfo(3,2,1,'1') and be done

[vsoch]

Yes, I was just testing that! And it worked! https://circleci.com/gh/singularityhub/singularity-cli/651 and then PR here: #123

Is it worth keeping the section for 3.2.0 now? It will use up free build time, and we can't support every point release.

[Flamefire]

Due to the tests we need:

• pre 3.2.0
• 3.2.0
• latest

[vsoch]

Latest is met (3.2.1-1) and pre 3.2.0 would be the current 3.1.0-1, but for 3.2.0 exactly I don't know how to meet that requirement - the official releases are are tagged with pre-release, so currently we do 3.1.0-1, is that not sufficient?

[vsoch]

Or do you mean parsing VersionInfo with a string like "pre-x" ? Could you maybe update the PR I did or just open a new one with what you have in mind? I think that would be faster than trying to explain to me :)

[vsoch]

@Flamefire is there anything I can do to help move forward? I'm not sure what you have in mind for updating the testing versions, and I don't want to make other changes until you've had a look at #119. Is there anything I can work on today / this weekend?

[Flamefire]

Add tests for conversion with files as input/output . Try to break your code ;)

[vsoch]

I can do that! But how do we generate the inputs/ outputs? If we start with a Singularity recipe, the output for the Dockerfile will be organized into sections. If we start with a Dockerfile, the Singularity recipe will organize it, and going back to Dockerfile will be a different Dockerfile.

I'll definitely do a first shot at this. For the version info and further review, will you be able to help more on Monday?

[Flamefire]

Have one folder for each direction of conversion. Start with a simple input, then add corner cases and examples of tricky stuff. Just like regular tests

Yes, a bit. I can't allocate much time for this but I'll see what I can do

[vsoch]

We handled this in the recent updates to testing. I hope Singularity doesn't have this issue in the future.