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On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Alan Pevec <apevec at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>
> wrote:
> > Brian Waldon wrote:
> >> The auth_token middleware shouldn't live in the Keystone source tree.
> It is not intended to be used alongside any of the Keystone code as it gets
> pulled in to every service *but* Keystone. It is super frustrating to have
> to install all of Keystone just to get this one piece of code. As this
> middleware is just a client, I am proposing we move it into the existing
> keystone client library - python-keystoneclient. What are the immediate
> feelings here?
> >
> > Distributions can solve this by creating multiple binary packages from
> > the same source package,
>
> I did that in Fedora for Essex, but it broke post folsom-2 due to new
> intra-keystone dependencies in auth-token middleware:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844508
>
> There's also an issue with python subpackages sharing python namespace
> - who owns overlapping __init__.py ?
>

One common way to solve that is by using a namespace package at the top
level.

Doug


> Best would be if auth-token is moved out of keystone.middleware, there
> are stuff imported[1] not required by auth-token.
>
> Alan
>
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/openstack/keystone/blob/master/keystone/middleware/__init__.py#L17
>
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