Re: [new] databases/py-influx-client

On 2022/06/27 08:39, Lucas Raab wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 06:15:47PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2022/06/25 15:53, Lucas Raab wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Here's a new port to connect to InfluxDB instances running 1.8,
> > > 2.0+, and Cloud. This is in contrast to the existing databases/py-influxdb
> > > which is only for InfluxDB 1.7 or less.
> > >
> > > Lightly tested against an InfluxDB Cloud instance running some
> > > queries. If anyone has 1.8/2.0 instances to try this with, that'd
> > > be great.
> > >
> > > Other note: there's asynchronous support with aiohttp, but only
> > > with 3.8. 3.7.4 is in the tree currently and I haven't looked at
> > > updating it. Other optional dependencies are numpy and pandas if
> > > you wanted to use DataFrames for query/data import. I left those
> > > out of RUN_DEPENDS since they're marked as extra, but put a note
> > > in DESCR.
> >
> > "Optional dependencies are:
> > math/py3-pandas
> > math/py3-numpy"
> >
> > I prefer to use package rather than port names for this, when somebody
> > wants to install them they'll normally be using pkg_add and may not have a
> > ports tree available
> >
> > It might be helpful to explain what they're useful for too?
> >
> > Otherwise OK
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Other thoughts and feedback?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lucas
> >
> >
>
> Something like this?:
>
> These optional dependencies can be used to upload or query data using pandas
> DataFrame objects:
> py3-pandas
> py3-numpy

Hmmm actually, py-pandas depends on numpy anyway (of course), and you're
not going to expect to do anything with pandas objects unless you have
pandas installed anyway...so I guess this can just be omitted