[openstack-dev] New python dependency - extras-0.0.1

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed Dec 12 23:02:20 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Brian Waldon <bcwaldon at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to agree loudly with this - the name 'extras' is a little silly. I'm fine with the underlying code, but it needs a much more descriptive name.
>
>>> I'm inclined to approve it, just want to give folks a chance to express
>>> an opinion.
>>
>> How about pulling try_import() into olso for the moment?
>
> This seems like a good compromise to forcing you (and others) to package something not everybody really agrees on.

testtools, which is already a dependency, will start depending on
extras in a release or so (giving folk time to package it). So you
won't avoid any packaging work by copying it into oslo - but you will
incur technical debt by copying the code.

-Rob
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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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