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On Aug 21, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Dan Prince <dprince at redhat.com> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mark McLoughlin" <markmc at redhat.com>
>> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 5:02:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack-common] Add auth_token.py from keystone middleware to openstack-common
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>> On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 16:23 -0500, Michael Basnight wrote:
>>> Side note: I'd prefer to not install all of keystone to get this
>>> one
>>> module, no matter where it is.
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>> FWIW, Fedora packages auth_token.py as python-keystone-auth-token so
>> that you don't need to install of keystone for just the middleware.
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> Actually. With some of the most recent Folsom changes auth_token.py now has some external dependencies on several other keystone modules:
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> from keystone.openstack.common import jsonutils
> from keystone.common import cms
> from keystone.common import utils
> from keystone.openstack.common import timeutils
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> If we want users to be able to deploy just the single module (like was possible with Essex) I think we may want to re-work some of this so that auth_token.py is once again stand alone.
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> Dan
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Agreed and good call Dan. Hopefully all of that can be pushed into openstack common (the 2 modules that aren't already there). If not, ya, we will need to rework.

Nonetheless, I think it warrants a move into its own little project. I'd prefer it over the common incubation stuff. I'm still not sure we have made any decision on this.