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On 01/21/2014 11:54 AM, Renat Akhmerov wrote:
> 
> On 17 Jan 2014, at 22:00, Jamie Lennox <jamielennox at redhat.com
> <mailto:jamielennox at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>> (I don't buy the problem with large amounts of dependencies, if you
>> have a meta-package you just have one line in requirements and pip
>> will figure the rest out.)
> 
> +1
> 
> Renat Akhmerov
> @ Mirantis Inc.

Man, where were you then when we had to spend 3 weeks unwinding global
requirements in the gate because pip was figuring it out all kinds of
wrong, and we'd do things like uninstall and reinstall
python-keystoneclient 6 times during an install. Because after that
experience, I'm very anti "pip will figure the rest out".

Because it won't, not in python, where we're talking about libraries
that are in the global namespace, where python can only have 1 version
of a dependency installed.

If the the solution is every openstack project should install a venv for
all it's dependencies to get around this issue, then we're talking a
different problem (and a different architecture from what we've been
trying to do). But I find the idea of having 12 copies of
python-keystone client installed on my openstack environment to be
distasteful.

So come spend a month working on requirements updates in OpenStack
gate... and if you still believe "pip will figure it out", well you are
a braver man than I. :)

	-Sean

-- 
Sean Dague
Samsung Research America
sean at dague.net / sean.dague at samsung.com
http://dague.net

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