I just chatted with the Python product owner at Red Hat, he says this is going to make it's way to the next step later today (this past weekend was a Fedora conference), so this should be happening soon.
Joe: Yup, I'm familiar with that piece (I had lunch with Vish the other week and he's the one who suggested Swift as the best place to get started with OpenStack + PyPy). For those who don't know I'm one of the core developers of PyPy :) Alex On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Ben Nemec <openst...@nemebean.com> wrote: > On 2013-08-13 16:58, Alex Gaynor wrote: > >> One of the issues that came up in this review however, is that cffi is >> not packaged in the most recent Ubuntu LTS (and likely other >> distributions), although it is available in raring, and in a PPA >> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/**raring/python-cffi<http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/python-cffi>[2] >> nd https://launchpad.net/~**pypy/+archive/ppa?field.** >> series_filter=precise<https://launchpad.net/~pypy/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=precise> >> [3] respectively). >> >> >> As a result of this, we wanted to get some feedback on which direction >> is best to go: >> >> a) cffi-only approach, this is obviously the simplest approach, and >> works everywhere (assuming you can install a PPA, use pip, or similar >> for cffi) >> b) wait until the next LTS to move to this approach (requires waiting >> until 2014 for PyPy support) >> c) Support using either netifaces or cffi: most complex, and most >> code, plus "one or the other" dependencies aren't well supported by >> most tools as far as I know. >> > > It doesn't appear to me that this is available for RHEL yet, although it > looks like they're working on it: https://admin.fedoraproject.** > org/updates/python-cffi-0.6-4.**el6<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-cffi-0.6-4.el6> > > That's also going to need to happen before we can do this, I think. > > -Ben > > > ______________________________**_________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.**org <OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > http://lists.openstack.org/**cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**openstack-dev<http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev> > -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero GPG Key fingerprint: 125F 5C67 DFE9 4084
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