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Def agreed on that, nothing is ever the best and only solution (although
it can be the 'recommended' one).

On 9/7/12 2:23 PM, "Gabriel Hurley" <Gabriel.Hurley at nebula.com> wrote:

>Oh, agreed. I'm not asking if these things should be in common, I think
>they should. Only if "because something is in common it *must* be used"...
>
>    - Gabriel
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joshua Harlow [mailto:harlowja at yahoo-inc.com]
>> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 12:25 PM
>> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List; Gabriel Hurley
>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] When to use openstack-common
>> 
>> Seems like a case where if its useful for 2/3 projects than maybe it
>>should be
>> in common.
>> 
>> I think it might be hard/impossible to always get 3/3 (or 100%)
>>usefulness for
>> everyone.
>> 
>> On 9/7/12 12:09 PM, "Gabriel Hurley" <Gabriel.Hurley at nebula.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >In response to https://review.openstack.org/#/c/12413/ I'm faced with
>> >the following question: should openstack common modules be included in
>> >cases where they're not providing any benefit other than
>>standardization?
>> >
>> >In particular, there are 3 points around that review:
>> >
>> >  1. The jsonutils code is designed to solve problems Horizon doesn't
>> >have.
>> >  2. The timeutils code duplicates functionality already built into
>> >Django (which Horizon is built on) and is only included because
>> >jsonutils now requires it.
>> >  3. The timeutils code is now adding external dependencies (iso8601
>> >python module) which *again* is duplicating built-in function in
>>Django.
>> >
>> >This seems like a really bad approach. It's a long dependency chain
>> >that adds nothing other than saying "we're using openstack-common".
>> >
>> >I'm inclined to remove jsonutils from Horizon (the "setup" module from
>> >openstack-common is still quite useful) and just go back to using the
>> >built-in python json.
>> >
>> >Alternatively, we need to introduce some constraints around introducing
>> >dependency chains in common...
>> >
>> >Thoughts?
>> >
>> >    - Gabriel
>> >
>> >
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