Open Stack

On 11/11/2014 12:46 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Adam Young <ayoung at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/01/2014 06:51 PM, Alan Pevec wrote:
>>>> %install
>>>> export OSLO_PACKAGE_VERSION=%{version}
>>>> %{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root %{buildroot}
>>>>
>>>> Then everything should be ok and PBR will become your friend.
>>> Still not my friend because I don't want a _build_ tool as runtime dependency :)
>>> e.g. you don't ship make(1) to run C programs, do you?
>>> For runtime, only pbr.version part is required but unfortunately
>>> oslo.version was abandoned.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Alan
>>>
>> Perhaps we need a top level Python Version library, not Oslo?  Is there such a thing?  Seems like it should not be something specific to OpenStack
> 
> What does pbr.version do?

Basically, the same as pkg-resources. Therefore I don't really
understand the need for it... Am I missing something?

Thomas