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On 12/15/14, 8:20 AM, "Kobi Samoray" <ksamoray at vmware.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>Some files in neutron are common infrastructure to the VMWare neutron
>L2/L3 plugin, and the services plugins.
>These files wrap VMWare NSX and provide a python API to some NSX services.
>
>This code is common to:
>- VMWare L2/L3 plugin, which after the split should be held outside of
>openstack repo (e.g stackforge)
>- neutron-lbaas, neutron-fwaas repos, which will hold the VMWare services
>plugins
>
>With neutron split into multiple repos, in and out of openstack, we have
>the following options:
>1. Duplicate the relevant code between the various repos - IMO a pretty
>bad choice for obvious reasons.

Yeah, yuck.

>
>2. Keep the code in the VMWare L3/L4 plugin repo - which will add an
>import from the neutron-*aas repos to a repo which is outside of
>openstack.

Importing code from elsewhere, which is not in the requirements file, is
done in a few places for vendor libraries. As long as the mainline code
doesn’t require it, and unit tests similarly can run without that import
being present, I don’t see a big problem wit hit.

Doug


>
>3. Add these components to oslo.vmware project: oslo.vmware contains, as
>of now, a wrapper to vCenter API. The components in discussion wrap NSX
>API, which is out of vCenter scope. Therefore it’s not really a part of
>oslo.vmware scope as it is defined today, but is still a wrapper layer to
>a VMWare product.
>We could extend the oslo.vmware scope to include wrappers to VMWare
>products, in general, and add the relevant components under
>oslo.vmware.network.nsx or similar.
>
>Thanks,
>Kobi
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