Support for RPM install (Fedora 33+)

[mtsinc1]

I was disappointed to find that Gourmet was lost when I upgraded to Fedora 33 recently. I'd like to rectify that.

Expected Behavior

Make Gourmet installable again as an RPM, via dnf/yum for Fedora platforms. Also CentOS, if needed.

Possible Solution

I have experience in designing/building RPM packages. I can create what's needed from scratch, but if anyone has the old "spec" file, that would help.

Environment

• Operating System: Fedora Linux and other Red Hat-like environments
• Version or commit id: forward
• Installed as Flatpak or Python package?: OS Native package

[codergeek42]

Hello. @mtsinc1 and thanks for your interest in Gourmet. I was formerly one of its co-maintainers in Fedora; and we retired the package last January due to its hard dependency on Python 2 (see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetirePython2 )

If you really would like to continue building the package on your own, you can grab the spec file and other sources from the Fedora package git repository and build it yourself. Here is the source tree from just before the package was retired:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gourmet/tree/bdf1cf728704ba12ba71763a5fd39405b96de322

(Note that this is completely at your own risk though, and no longer supported by Fedora in any official capacity.)

Judging by @thinkle 's comment on #1020 it seems that this will transition to a web-app soon, and that is where all the development is focused.

Regards,
--Peter G.

[hdholm]

There has been a lot of work in porting Gourmet to Python 3. See https://github.com/kirienko/gourmet While there's not an official release yet, Ive found the code to be mostly functional on my Fedora 33 system. It may be worth trying to package it up in an RPM even though it isn't "fully baked" yet.