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On 06/18/2014 01:57 AM, Clark Boylan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Mike Spreitzer <mspreitz at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> I have noticed that lately DevStack has been hacking requirements.txt in
>> most projects and test-requirements.txt in many.  Why is this being done?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
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> 
> This is being done to ensure that all projects are tested with a
> common reproduceable dependency list. Without doing this every project
> can install different versions of things based on the way pip resolves
> dependencies. It isn't intuitive and can cause us to not actually work
> with the dependencies advertised in requirements.txt.
> 
> For example since we don't make requirements syncs happen in lockstep
> project A may depend on an older version of some dependency that is
> shared with project B. Pip will then install this older version for us
> and this older version is what gets tested. Then we update the
> dependency in project A and everything breaks because we actually
> needed the older version. It is also possible that project B
> absolutely requires the newer version that we have stated in
> requirements.txt (perhaps this is why requirements.txt says what it
> says), but if it gets the old version from project A now project B is
> broken.

Global requirements is about a year old, and was a direct reaction to
project growth to the point that we could no longer get all the projects
to sync requirements in a reasonable time frame.

Before we did it we would regularly install / uninstall python-keystone
client 6 times over the course of a devstack run, based on conflicting
project requirements.

It was *awesome*... (not)

The end result is you may or may not be testing with what you thought
you were supposed to be, and if a project used entry point plugins and
was installed at the wrong time, would explode on start, as the
requirements were changed under it.

	-Sean

-- 
Sean Dague
http://dague.net

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