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On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 11:32 -0500, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> The ceilometer team is using Pecan [1] for our next-generation API
> framework. Pecan depends on a newer WebOb than is used by the other
> OpenStack components, so I spent this morning reviewing the differences in
> WebOb between 1.0.8 and 1.2.3 (the latest stable release) [2] and what
> impact those changes might have on nova, cinder, keystone, and oslo (the 4
> projects where I found WebOb being used -- please let me know if I missed
> one).
> 
> Most of the changes appear to be bug fixes and changes that either have a
> backwards-compatible alias, are deprecations that were reversed later, or
> should not have an impact on us because we were not using the changed area
> of the code directly. The only thing I found to be questionable is the
> change to Request.path_info and Request.script_name. Those properties are
> now unicode objects instead of str objects, as WebOb is trying to provide
> better Python 3 support. I found a few uses of those variables in
> comparisons and concatenation with str objects, but the casting should work
> automatically as long as the path can be encoded in the default encoding,
> which should be the case as the paths to our API use only ASCII characters.
> All of the unit tests pass when I run them locally.
> 
> I have submitted patches against the 4 projects to update the version
> number in tools/pip-requires, without any other code changes:
> 
> Oslo: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18885/
> Nova: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18886/
> Keystone: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18887/
> Cinder: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18888/

The issue Sean raised in the Nova review is:

  ubuntu quantal, debian unstable, and fedora latest all seem to
  have webob 1.1.1

Is there anyway we can make '>= 1.1.1' the requirement and keep all
projects happy?

Distro packagers - anyone know the reason why webob isn't getting
updated in distros?

Cheers,
Mark.