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> On Dec 6, 2013, at 9:50 AM, "Joshua Harlow" <harlowja at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> 
> Forgive me for not understanding your precious email (which I guess was confusing for me to understand). This one clears that up. If only we all had Vulcan mind meld capabilities, haha.
> 
> Thanks for helping me understand, no need to get frustrated. Not everyone is able to decipher your email in the same way u wrote it, part of this ML should be about teaching others your viewpoints, not getting frustrated over simple things like misunderstandings...
> 
> Sent from my really tiny device...
> 
>>> On Dec 6, 2013, at 9:16 AM, "Mark McLoughlin" <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 16:55 +0000, Joshua Harlow wrote:
>>> I really have to agree with this. It's especially important if
>>> oslo.messaging is also used in libraries like taskflow. If
>>> oslo.messaging imposes that users of it must use oslo.config then by
>>> using it in taskflow, taskflow then imposes the same oslo.config
>>> usage.
>> 
>> You know, I think you either didn't read my (carefully considered) email
>> or didn't take the time to understand it. That's incredibly frustrating.
>> 
>> My proposal would mean that oslo.messaging could be used like this:
>> 
>> from oslo import messaging
>> 
>> conf = messaging.get_config_from_dict(dict(rpc_conn_pool_size=100))
>> 
>> transport = messaging.get_transport(conf, 'qpid:///test')
>> 
>> server = Server(transport)
>> server.start()
>> server.wait()
>> 
>> oslo.config is nothing but an implementation detail if you used
>> oslo.messaging in this way.
>> 
>> (Julien had a more subtle concern about this which I can actually relate
>> more to)
>> 
>>> This makes all libraries that use it inherently only useable in the
>>> openstack ecosystem which I think is very bad opensource behavior (not
>>> exactly open).
>> 
>> "bad open-source behaviour"? Seriously?
>> 
>> Yeah, like gtk+ is only usable in the GNOME ecosystem because it uses
>> glib and gtk+ authors are bad open-source people because they didn't
>> allow an alternative to glib to be used. Bizarre statement, frankly.
>> 
>>> There are other reasons to, a configuration dict means u can have
>>> many different active instances being simultaneously used (each with
>>> its own config), with oslo.config since it is a static configuration
>>> object u get 1 simultaneous instance. So this is yet another behavior
>>> that I as a library provider thing is very unhealthy restriction to
>>> impose on people that use taskflow.
>> 
>> "1 simultaneous instance" ... you mean the cfg.CONF object?
>> 
>> There's no requirement to use that and I explained that in my email
>> too ... even though I actually thought it should need no explaining at
>> this point.
>> 
>> Mark.
>>