On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 07:12:29AM -0800, Sean Dague wrote: > On 01/27/2015 12:18 AM, Silvan Kaiser wrote: > > Hello! > > Do dependencies required only in some contexts belong into requirements.txt? > > > > Yesterday we had a short discussion on #openstack-nova regarding how to > > handle optional requirements. This was triggered by our quobyte nova > > driver (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/110722/18), who requires xattr, > > which we therefore added to requirements.txt (as it is provided by the > > requirements project). > > > > Points from the discussion: > > - If we add this we will be adding every requirement for every component > > ---> this becomes to big. > > - Remove this requirement, no optional entries in requirements.txt, a > > 'deployer' has to know what dependencies the components he wants to use have > > ---> Usually he does not know and installation becomes more issue prone > > - Other (in between) ideas??? > > > > Please note that this has some urgency, the change set referenced above > > has been in review for months and i'm trying to react asap on comments > > but the deadline is approaching (next week) and if i have to do bigger > > changes I'd like to know as fast as possible... > > Typically the answer is no. The libvirt volume driver architecture is > kind of weird in the fact that it doesn't actually split it's drivers > out into separate files, so there can be a file level boundry (including > loading) for these things.
Not immediately relevant, but in the Lxxxx cycle, I'm hoping to finally split the volume.py up into a subdirectory of files. The nova.conf 'volume_drivers' config will be removed by thenm, avoiding the back compat class naming problem we'd have if we split it in Kilo Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
