[openstack-dev] [Horizon] Separate horizon and openstack_dashboard

Akihiro Motoki amotoki at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 14:17:14 UTC 2014


+1 for Yves.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Yves-Gwenaël Bourhis
<yves-gwenael.bourhis at cloudwatt.com> wrote:
> Le 17/11/2014 14:19, Matthias Runge a écrit :
>
>> There is already horizon on pypi[1]
>>
>> IMHO this will lead only to more confusion.
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>> [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/horizon/2012.2
>
> Well the current "horizon" on Pypi is "The OpenStack Dashboard" +
> horizon(_lib) included
>
> If the future "horizon" on pypi is "openstack_dashboard" alone, it would
> still pull "horizon_lib" as a dependency, so it would not brake the
> existing.
>
> So indeed the "horizon" package itself in Pypi would not have
> horizon(_lib) in it anymore, but he "pip install horizon" would pull
> everything due to the dependency horizon will have with horizon_lib.
>
> I find this the least confusing issue and the "horizon" package on Pypi
> would still be seen as "The OpenStack Dashboard" like it is now. We
> would only add an "horizon_lib" package on Pypi.
> Therefore existing third-party "requirements.txt" would not brake
> because they would pull horizon_lib with horizon. and they would still
> import the proper module. Every backwards compatibility (requirements
> and module) is therefore preserved.
>
>
> --
> Yves-Gwenaël Bourhis
>
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