FreeBSD support

[mfyuce]

This library can easily support FreeBSD, I think. Waht do you say?

[benjaoming]

Thanks for asking

Yes, definitely -- someone (with FreeBSD!) is definitely encouraged to pick up this PR... https://github.com/ftao/python-ifcfg/pull/23

(feel welcome to supersede the PR with your own branch)

[rgeorgia]

Just forked this repo. I'll do this. Not to "up" on nose, but I'll learn. I'll add support for the major BSDs.

[rgeorgia]

Excuse my ignorance. Not sure if this is the platform for questions and clarification. I have ifcfg working with FreeBSD and NetBSD (there's a little cliche with OpenBSD). I know almost nothing about nose. If I create a venv with python3.10 nostetests fail with a traceback.

File "/usr/home/rgeorgia/workspace/python_projects/python-ifcfg/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nose/suite.py", line 106, in _set_tests if isinstance(tests, collections.Callable) and not is_suite: AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'Callable'

All tests pass with python3.8 and python3.9. The tox.ini file has python3.8 as the max version. Are we staying with python3.8?

[benjaoming]

This sounds more like a Python 3.10 issue that should be fixed.

[benjaoming]

It seems like collections.abc.Callable would work in all Python versions, maybe you can check to see if it does on Python 3.10, too?

[rgeorgia]

Will do! Once I finish the tests (which include learning about nose) I just issue a pull request, correct? I forked the project and created a branch called freebsd.

[benjaoming]

Yes, I'm here to do a new release whenever needed, and @ftao is maybe also on the line :)