Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2015-05-16 16:02:30 +0000: > On 2015-05-16 16:37:45 +0100 (+0100), Neil Jerram wrote: > > I recall people on this ML talking about some systematic change in > > Oslo module naming - could it possibly be related? > > Specifically, oslo libraries have switched to no longer being > namespace packages[*]. > > [*] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/#namespace-packages-today
Python packaging makes a distinction between the name of the thing you import (the "package") and the name of the thing you download and install (the "distribution" or just "dist"). Most of the time those are the same, but they don't have to be. The Oslo libraries that were under namespace packages started out with package names like oslo.config and dist names that matched. With the changes in Kilo and Liberty to remove the "oslo" namespace package, we have moded the code into unique top-level packages with names like "oslo_config". To avoid confusion downstream, especially with requirements files for OpenStack projects, we kept the dist names the same as they had been. So, you "pip install oslo.config" and then "from oslo_config import cfg". More details in http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/oslo-specs/specs/kilo/drop-namespace-packages.html Doug __________________________________________________________________________ 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
