python-sasl

Python wrapper for Cyrus SASL

how `sasl3` is different from `sasl` package?

This is a fork from original work from Cloudera's package sasl package.

Original package wasn't maintained and had issue wth latest Python 3 releases, and also had runtime issues running on RHEL6. Python sasl3 package solves these issues.

Other than that, it's a drop-in replacement for original sasl package - no changes to your Python code is necessary, including the name of the imported package - still stays just sasl (and not sasl3 as the name of the pypi repo).

External dependencies

You need following external packages installed on the system to pip-install sasl3 :

C compiler (e.g. gcc)
cyrus-sasl-devel package for Cyrus header files.

Both can be installed with OS' package manager, e.g.

yum install gcc cyrus-sasl-devel.x86_64

to generate sasl/saslwrapper.cpp from the pyx file:

run ./recython.sh