Hosts: Everyone: please test the python3only branch

[StevenBlack]

Hello everybody.

I need people on a wide variety of OSes to test the python3only branch to ensure you can build hosts files in all its facets.

I hope to merge python3only into master very soon.

Upvote this issue with comments to declare your OS and what you get. If someone has already tested your OS, then upvote with a 👍 to confirm.

Thanks!

[lightswitch05]

Result: Success ✅
OS: MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6)
Python: 3.6.5

Features Tested:

• flush-dns-cache
• replace
• auto
• extensions

[funilrys]

Well, I wrote all commits but :thinking: ....

yeah let me append the badge:

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:joy_cat:
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OS: Arch Linux 4.18.5-arch1-1-ARCH
Python: 3.7.0

[gfyoung]

Everyone's favorite: Windows 10! 😄

(BTW, @StevenBlack , at some point, that might be something worthwhile to revisit as Microsoft drops support for older Windows versions)

[StevenBlack]

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS: works great after gyrations to get latest Python3, Pip3 updated.

One oddity: the base hosts file contains only 43,718 unique entries, compared to 60,777 entries here, after pausing for a long time on someonewhocares.org.

[StevenBlack]

Tested on Debian GNU/Linux 9, works great, no issues.

[StevenBlack]

Release 2.0.0 is now live!

Thank you everyone!

Closing.

[gfyoung]

Quick house cleaning thing: can't you delete the python3only branch now?

[StevenBlack]

Thanks @gfyoung, done!

[gfyoung]

@StevenBlack :

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet

(in reference to my comment above)

With Windows 7 extended support scheduled to be ended in about 15 months (and Microsoft dropping support entirely for anything earlier than that), what do you think about revisiting this? Can discuss in a new thread if there is sufficient interest.

[StevenBlack]

@gfyoung I'm a card-carrying member of the National Fuck Microsoft Association, as you may know 😎

As far as I know, we don't have any Windows 7-specific issues, do we? What's the rush?

[gfyoung]

@StevenBlack : 🤦‍♂️

Sorry, there is no context to the question! I'll phrase better in a subsequent comment.

I'm a card-carrying member of the National Fuck Microsoft Association

Hahahaha. I understand that Chrome OS is a platinum-level sponsor of that?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/600-chromebooks-are-a-dangerous-development-for-microsoft/

[gfyoung]

@StevenBlack : Here is the context for above: automating the hosts file copying and DNS cache clearing (#287 and #291). I recall that one of your concerns was that there were too many versions of Windows out there in the wild.

However, if Microsoft isn't supporting many of the versions out there, and with Windows 7 (and up) adoption pretty high, I was thinking that maybe we could revisit this.

What do you think?