[openstack-dev] [all] [glance] python namespaces considered harmful to development, lets not introduce more of them

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed Sep 24 03:16:12 UTC 2014


Nuts, thank you.

On 24 September 2014 14:28, Mike Bayer <mbayer at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 23, 2014, at 7:03 PM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
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>> On 29 August 2014 04:42, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
>>> On 08/28/2014 12:22 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> ...
>>>> The problem is that the setuptools implementation of namespace packages breaks in a way that is repeatable but difficult to debug when a common OpenStack installation pattern is used. So the fix is “don’t do that” where I thought “that” meant the installation pattern and Sean thought it meant “use namespace packages”. :-)
>>>
>>> Stupid english... be more specific!
>>>
>>> Yeh, Doug provides the most concise statement of where we failed on
>>> communication (I take a big chunk of that blame). Hopefully now it's a
>>> lot clearer what's going on, and why it hurts if you do it.
>>
>> So... FWIW I think I've got a cleaner implementation of namespaces
>> *for our context* - it takes inspiration from the PEP-420 discussion
>> and final design. It all started when Mike reported issues with testr
>> to me.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo.db/+bug/1366869
>
> I think you’ve got the wrong bug linked in here and your review, seems like you meant this one:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo.db/+bug/1372250
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