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On 10/21/2011 03:26 PM, Soren Hansen wrote:
> 2011/10/21 Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com>:
>> On 10/21/2011 03:16 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>> Best, IMHO, would be to maintain python-novaclient directly inside
>>> the nova project, since this way we can do a version depend.
>> There was a discussion about this at the design summit, and it was
>> decided against for now because this winds up causing problems for
>> python depends in pip-based installs. (there is no idea of a source
>> package creating multiple binary packages in pip, so for people who
>> just need nova client to have to install nova and all of its depends
>> is problematic.)
> 
> Just because they're in the same repository, they don't have to be the
> same "source package". They could have separate top-level directories
> (so each their own setup.py and whatnot), but in the same repository.
> That way, we can keep them separate, but still in sync.
> 

Yeah - I would personally very much like to avoid this. It doesn't solve
anything for what Thomas is talking about since what's in the git repo
isn't important for packaging - the more important thing there is what's
in the tarball - and those would continue to be separate.

Monty