On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 21:25 +0000, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > Monty Taylor wrote: > > > OpenStack projects that need to depend on these will reference the git repo > > of the project in their > > tools/pip-requires file. This should take care of depends for developers. > > Normal installation depends > > can be taken care of by distro packagers as usual. > > Why would an openstack project *need* to reference a client library of > another openstack project? > > Wouldn't requiring openstack projects to rely on the REST API of other > projects eliminate a whole mess > of release dependencies?
Yes, but it would also mean a multiplication of bugs, since each project would be re-implementing a REST API client for all the other projects. Put another way, I'd rather have the Swift developers writing a Python client library that I can import into Glance's Swift storage driver than reimplement an entire client library for Swift without the knowledge that the Swift contributors bring to the table. Cheers, -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc Post to : openstack-poc@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
