On 08/21/2015 04:08 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > Excerpts from Robert Collins's message of 2015-08-20 15:24:03 +1200: >> We currently have a test where we ask if things are packaged in >> distros. >> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/requirements/tree/README.rst#n268 >> >> I think we should modify that, in two ways. >> >> The explanation for the question ignores a fairly large audience of >> deployers who don't wait for distributions - so they too need to >> package things, but unlike distributions packaging stuff is itself >> incidental to their business, rather than being it. So I think we >> should consider their needs too. >> >> Secondly, all the cases of this I've seen so far we've essentially >> gone 'sure, fine'. I think thats because there's really nothing to >> them. >> >> So I think the test should actually be something like: >> Apply caution if it is not packaged AND packaging it is hard. >> Things that make packaging a Python package hard: >> - nonstandard build systems >> - C dependencies that aren't already packaged >> - unusual licences >> >> E.g. things which are easy, either because they can just use existing >> dependencies, or they're pure python, we shouldn't worry about. >> >> -Rob >> > > I think this interpretation is fine. It's more or less what I've been > doing anyway. > > Is it safe to assume that if a package is available on PyPI and can be > installed with pip, packaging it for a distro isn't technically > difficult? (It might be difficult due to vendoring, licensing, or some > other issue that would be harder to test for.) > > 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 > Packaging for us is fairly easy, but it is annoying to have to add 5-6 deps each release, (which means we are adding cruft over time).
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