[openstack-dev] [networking-bagpipe] exabgp dependency

James Page james.page at ubuntu.com
Thu Apr 27 16:06:00 UTC 2017


Hi Thomas

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 at 17:03 <thomas.morin at orange.com> wrote:

> Indeed, we have moved from shipping a fork of an old exabgp in bagpipe-bgp
> (a.k.a."vendoring", i.e. baaad...) to using upstream, but we have
> dependencies on exabgp development branch.
>
> I've been in touch with ExaBGP main author, who plans to release exabgp 4
> from master "soon".
> The one pending item he would like to cover before releasing is having
> exabgp run with python3, and not everything is ready [1].
>
> So, while I don't have a full answer on the "when", this is reasonable
> information on the "how" this will happen.
> I hope this can be achieved in a timeframe compatible with Pike, and plan
> to spend some time helping this happen.
>
> Once this is done, we'll also work to include exabgp in
> global-requirements.
>

That all sounds great; I'll hold off on the first milestone for this
package in Ubuntu for now and we can review again at the next milestone!

Cheers

James
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