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I think there's is no suitable place at the moment in the source code tree.
"common" and "plugin specific" indeed are semantically a bit at odds too!
I am considering moving all "library" code for the vmware plugins outside
of the source code tree, into their own package, maintained separately and
independently from neutron release cycles.

I'm not sure if and when that will happen, but I think it will beneficial
to both the community and the vmware team.
That's something you might consider for your libraries too, if you can't
sort that with packagers as Anita said.

A situation like this will however put distros which package plugins in
distinct packages in a tight spot, as it would look rather weird to have
the bigswitch plugin as a dependency for the ml2 plugin (I don't think
drivers are packages separately)

Salvatore


On 17 June 2014 00:10, Anita Kuno <anteaya at anteaya.info> wrote:

> On 06/16/2014 06:02 PM, Kevin Benton wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > In the Big Switch ML2 driver, we rely on quite a bit of code from the Big
> > Switch plugin. This works fine for distributions that include the entire
> > neutron code base. However, some break apart the neutron code base into
> > separate packages. For example, in CentOS I can't use the Big Switch ML2
> > driver with just ML2 installed because the Big Switch plugin directory is
> > gone.
> >
> > Is there somewhere where we can put common third party code that will be
> > safe from removal during packaging?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
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> I think you would be best to talk to packagers.
>
> Rather than trying to move it around, perhaps asking the packagers why
> they are packaging it as they are might be a good place to begin.
>
> Thanks Kevin,
> Anita.
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