On 07/03/2012 08:43 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > > On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> > wrote: > >> Hey all! >> >> One of the tasks from the last ODS was to implement a single >> global dependency list. Turns out the more you think about it, the >> more important it is... because of the way we use devstack as part >> of the gate, we actually _currently_ have a de facto global >> dependency list, it's just not declared anywhere. (oops) >> >> Anyway - the original thought was to put the depends in >> openstack-common. We'd use update.py to copy the depends in to the >> project, so that projects could align on their own timeframe. >> Additionally, we'd make the copy only copy in the versions from >> openstack-common for package that were already listed in the >> target project, so that we wouldn't add django to >> python-swiftclient, for instance. >> >> The mechanics of that all work and are ready - but then bcwaldon >> pointed out that it didn't make a ton of sense for them to go in >> openstack-common, since that has its own lifecycle and is a place >> for common code to go - not just a catch all place. >> >> To that end, I took the code we had written for the update logic >> and put it, along with the depends lists, into its own repo. I >> think we're ready to start actually moving forward with it - but >> we've run up against the hardest problem we every have: >> >> naming >> >> openstack-depends already got vetoed on IRC because it makes >> people think of adult diapers. I'm proposing openstack-requires, >> since the files we're talking about are actually python >> requirements files. >> >> Any objections? > > +0 on the name > > As an alternative, how about combining the requirements file with the > other packaging related stuff from openstack-common and calling the > result openstack-packaging?
Interesting. Which other packaging stuff? Do you mean the stuff in openstack/common/setup.py? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
