On 9 April 2015 at 01:12, Flavio Percoco <fla...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/04/15 08:59 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> I have always considered pbr a packaging/installation time tool, and not >> something that would be used at runtime. Why are we using pbr to get the >> version of an installed package, instead of asking pkg_resources? > > > Just wanted to +1 the above. > > I've also considered pbr a packaging/install tool. Furthermore, I > believe having it as a runtime requirement makes packagers life more > complicated because that means pbr will obviously need to be added as > a runtime requirement for that package. pbr is a consolidation of a bunch of packaging / build related things we had as copy-paste in the past. Some of those are purely build time, others, like having a version present for editable or not installed packages, is not. If we want to make a hard separation, and have a pbr_runtime separate package, we can definitely do that. But there should be utterly no difficulty in having pbr packaged in distros - its packaged in Ubuntu, for instance. Also we've been adding features to make it more aligned with distro needs - I'd love it if the conversation focused on what that needs, rather than 'ripping it out' - since I really loath the copy-paste hell that I fear that will lead to. -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud __________________________________________________________________________ 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
