reddit: extract to external package #2444
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The writing's on the wall: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12qwagm/an_update_regarding_reddits_api/ It's reasonable to guess that these changes to rate-limit enforcement (however vague they might be now) will eventually affect Sopel bots running with the default, shared, OAuth app ID. A plugin that no longer works (reliably) without the bot owner having to acquire an API key of some kind fails our number-one criterion for inclusion in the base Sopel package. While the reddit plugin hasn't yet reached that point, we are also trying to extract a lot of the built-ins anyway for maintenance reasons. That transition is much easier to make on our own schedule, right before a major release. And a major release is a doubly great time for this particular change, because we can drop `praw` as a core requirement.
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OK but apparently there is no such thing as a |
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Oops, when I changed my mind and added the thing in Notes about not making it a requirement, I forgot about the link in the main description. Now planning to publish the first release after sopel-irc/sopel-reddit#1 is tested/merged. |
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External package published: https://pypi.org/project/sopel-reddit/1.0.0/ |
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The writing's on the wall: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12qwagm/an_update_regarding_reddits_api/
It's reasonable to guess that these changes to rate-limit enforcement (however vague they might be now) will eventually affect Sopel bots running with the default, shared, OAuth app ID.
A plugin that no longer works (reliably) without the bot owner having to acquire an API key of some kind fails our number-one criterion for inclusion in the base Sopel package. While the reddit plugin hasn't yet reached that point, we are also trying to extract a lot of the built-ins anyway for maintenance reasons.
That transition is much easier to make on our own schedule, right before a major release. And a major release is a doubly great time for this particular change, because we can drop
prawas a core requirement.Extracted plugin now lives at https://github.com/sopel-irc/sopel-reddit and a version equivalent to what was removed in this PR has been (as of April 21) published to PyPI.
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make qa(runsmake qualityandmake test)Notes
I considered, but ultimately decided against, adding the newly extracted plugin as an installation requirement. We did it for
sopel-helpin #2332, but that's basically still a core plugin; without it, Sopel doesn't come with any interactive help functionality, or even a way to list the available commands.Handling reddit links isn't on the same level as offering help functionality, so I think it's fine to just mention the removal in our changelog & upgrade guide. Getting the
redditplugin back—along with any others we've removed that the user wants to keep—will be a matter of one shell command.