[openstack-dev] openstack-common library release [was Re: [Netstack] Request for comments on a pep8 problem]

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Tue Aug 7 07:08:08 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 13:40 -0400, Jay Pipes wrote:
> I'd prefer smaller, reusable libs as well. Unfortunately, the decision
> to use global CONF objects has essentially made the config module an
> interdependency between all the other common code, so at a minimum, the
> config module would need to be a dep in the other libs.

Yes, most openstack-common modules depend on cfg.

But this isn't because of the global config object. The dependency is
there because we want to allow modules to define configuration options.

Cheers,
Mark.




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