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On 09/09/2014 10:41 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 
> On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:18 PM, James E. Blair <corvus at inaugust.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> writes:
>>
>>> The crux of the issue is that zookeeper python modules are C extensions.
>>> So you have to either install from packages (which we don't do in unit
>>> tests) or install from pip, which means forcing zookeeper dev packages
>>> locally. Realistically this is the same issue we end up with for mysql
>>> and pg, but given their wider usage we just forced that pain on developers.
>> ...
>>> Which feels like we need some decoupling on our requirements vs. tox
>>> targets to get there. CC to Monty and Clark as our super awesome tox
>>> hackers to help figure out if there is a path forward here that makes sense.
>>
>> From a technical standpoint, all we need to do to make this work is to
>> add the zookeeper python client bindings to (test-)requirements.txt.
>> But as you point out, that makes it more difficult for developers who
>> want to run unit tests locally without having the requisite libraries
>> and header files installed.
> 
> I don’t think I’ve ever tried to run any of our unit tests on a box where I hadn’t also previously run devstack to install all of those sorts of dependencies. Is that unusual?

It is for Linux users, running local unit tests is the norm for me.

	-Sean

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