CLI Team Update August 2021

[kdaily]

Hello everyone, this is the August 2021 AWS CLI update. I (@kdaily) will be making these updates moving forward on behalf of the AWS CLI team. 👋🏻 I’m a developer support engineer for the AWS CLI and Python (boto3/botocore) repositories. I focus on issue triage, guidance requests, and developer feedback related to the AWS CLI and Python SDK.

First, we filled the position for a software development engineer. Please welcome @justindho to the team! We also have a new engineer (@tim-finnigan) responsible for issue triage and guidance issues as well.

Our main announcement for this month is the proposal for an AWS CLI v2 source distribution. This installation method will provide users and package maintainers a straightforward way to build and install the AWS CLI v2. Please see this GitHub pull request (#6352) for the proposal. You can provide any constructive comments or feedback there as well.

Since our last update, we also dropped Python 2.7 support for the AWS CLI v1 (version 1.20). Based off of issue reports, this seems to have gone smoothly! If you need to continue to use Python 2, you’ll get aws-cli<=1.19.112 when installing. We also updated our installation guide for prerequisites of pip (9.0.2 or greater) and setuptools (36.2.0 or greater) to ensure compatibility with the packaging features used by the AWS CLI.

The following enhancements and bug fixes were made:

• [v2] Display error message when unable to open pager #6241 (issue aws ec2 does not print results in aws-cli v2.2.x #6225)
• Fix regression in not respecting --source-region #6166 (issue aws s3 sync throws an IllegalLocationConstraintException even with source region set #6152)

We’re still reviewing implementations for the following issues:

• Add tagging option to s3 commands #6079 (issue [Feature Request] Add tagging support to s3 #2458)
• Add no-overwrite option to s3 cp and s3 mv commands #6095 (issue Add --no-overwrite option to aws s3 cp/mv #2874)
• Add acl to copy-props option for s3 commands #6107 (issue s3 sync does not preserve permissions across buckets #901)

Stay tuned for our next update! We’ll be monitoring the feedback on the source distribution proposal.

[dan-petty]

When awscli v2 in pip?

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