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Excerpts from Davanum Srinivas (dims)'s message of 2015-11-10 08:01:50 -0500:
> Julien,
> 
> That's exactly what i want as well. We should just let whoever has
> copies to do whatever they want with them and drop our oversight of
> it. Since they are mature and haven't been touched for a while, i
> really don't see the need to take care of them.
> 
> -- dims

+1 -- this is what we agreed to in Tokyo, IIRC

We did not want to move them to oslo.utils because many of the
existing dependencies of oslo.utils are not useful for client
libraries, so the other alternative discussed was creating an
oslo.apiutils library, but it's not clear if the code in the incubator
is (a) used (b) the same as what is in all of the clients now.

Doug

> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10 2015, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> >
> >> Julien, Victor,
> >>
> >> How about - oslo.cli = apiclient/*.py + cliutils.py - since we already
> >> have a spec for a new library for apiclient
> >
> > I may be lacking context here, but we built a new complete client
> > recently (python-gnocchiclient) without apiclient and cliutils at all.
> > We just used cliff and keystoneauth1.
> >
> > So I really doubt we need these legacy libraries nowadays. Isn't the
> > best option to just let them die and spend efforts moving clients away
> > From them?
> >
> > --
> > Julien Danjou
> > ;; Free Software hacker
> > ;; https://julien.danjou.info
>