[openstack-dev] OS proliferation on PyPI
Mark McLoughlin
markmc at redhat.com
Mon May 13 13:33:23 UTC 2013
On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 15:08 +0200, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while I appreciate the rationale behind the "hacking" package [0], could
> we please rename this to openstack.hacking or alternatively transform it
> into a more generic flake8.hacking? So far, we often just polluted the
> PyPI namespace with randomly named packages that are very much
> OS-specific. If such packages aren't meant to be consumed outside the OS
> context or make little sense without, they probably shouldn't look like
> they could.
>
> FWIW, It seems to be a somewhat similar issue to whats currently
> discussed in th "New code name for networks" thread on the generic ML.
>
> Footnotes:
> [0] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacking
hacking is intended not to be totally OpenStack specific, that's why it
wasn't called e.g. oslo.hacking
All OpenStack pypi packages are tagged with the same environment so they
show up here:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&c=583
Cheers,
Mark.
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