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On 28/03/14 04:58, Joe Gordon wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net
> <mailto:sean at dague.net>> wrote:
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>     On 03/27/2014 02:54 PM, Joe Gordon wrote:
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>      > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Dirk Müller <dirk at dmllr.de
>     <mailto:dirk at dmllr.de>
>      > <mailto:dirk at dmllr.de <mailto:dirk at dmllr.de>>> wrote:
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>      >     Hi,
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>      >     >> When I was an operator, I regularly referred to the sample
>     config
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>      >     >> in the git repository.
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>      >     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.
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>      > Why is it cumbersome? We do the same thing.
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>     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.
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>     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.
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>     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.
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> Good answer.

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