libsodium version checking ? about pysodium

[stef]

damn. sorry man. sure, i think 2 is easier, but 1 is more informative for any user. do you have any of this ready? i was also thinking of putting the aead functions in a try except block, also a very cheap solution, which fails silently, which might not be a good idea again.

[evadot]

The problem for solution 2 is that we also need to check the lib version in the helper function.
An easy way is to have a "function" -> "libsodium version" relation table, which could be useful but also a pita to maintain.
Putting everything in a try/except block will work be I don't think this is a good solution.
The solution 1 I proposed it the simplest, right now for my app I've simply set pysodium==0.6.8 in my setup.py requires, it's just a matter of what you want to do, if you say clearly on the readme.md that you will closely follow the release of libsodium and update as soon as possible pysodium for it it's good for me (and I think for everyone else). It's really easy with pip to track a specific version (as long as you don't delete them).

I don't have any of the code ready (I don't like to do stuff for nothing :P) but as said before I'll provide any code you want based the decision you made.

P.S. : don't feel sorry for me all the problems happened in dev on my machine and not in production :)

[stef]

it seems that this patch fails for py3. can anyone who cares about py3 please have a look? thx. failing tests: https://travis-ci.org/stef/pysodium/jobs/134765723

[evadot]

This is weird because I only dev under python3.4, I'll look further.

[evadot]

Ok I wasn't in my venv when testing so I was using python2 ...
Let me fix this quick

[stef]

py3 is fixed with d6b96d7