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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> On 03/27/2014 02:54 PM, Joe Gordon wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Dirk Müller <dirk at dmllr.de
> > <mailto:dirk at dmllr.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     >> When I was an operator, I regularly referred to the sample config
> >     files
> >     >> in the git repository.
> >
> >     The sample config files in git repository are tremendeously useful
> for
> >     any operator and OpenStack Packager. Having them generateable with a
> >     tox line is very cumbersome.
> >
> >
> > Why is it cumbersome? We do the same thing.
>
> Because we've already got a working tox environment. Which includes
> knowing, in advance that you can't just pip install tox (as 1.7.x is
> broken), and that you need to have postgresql and mysql and libffi dev
> packages installed, and a C compiler.
>
> Start with a pristine Linux it is a lot manual steps you have to go
> through to get a working config out of tox -e genconfig.
>
> So I think it's a fair concern that we did just move a burden back onto
> users because we dug a hole by letting libraries declare arbitrary
> required variables in our config files.
>

Good answer.


>
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