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Gareth,


A real example is to enable Rally for OpenStack Juno. Rally doesn't support
> old release officially but I could checkout its codes to the Juno release date
> which make both codes match. However even if I use the old requirements.txt
> to install dependencies, there must be many packages are installed as
> upstream versions and some of them breaks. An ugly way is to copy pip list
> from old Juno environment and install those properly. I hope there are
> better ways to do this work. Anyone has smart ideas?


Install everything in virtualenv (or at least Rally)

Best regards,
Boris Pavlovic

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Gareth <academicgareth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I have a question about dependencies. There is an example:
>
> On 2014.1, project A is released with its dependency in requirements.txt
> which contains:
>
> foo>=1.5.0
> bar>=2.0.0,<2.2.0
>
> and half a year later, the requirements.txt changes to:
>
> foo>=1.7.0
> bar>=2.1.0,<2.2.0
>
> It looks fine, but potential change would be upstream version of package
> foo and bar become 2.0.0 and 3.0.0 (major version upgrade means there are
> incompatible changes).
>
> For bar, there will be no problems, because "<2.2.0" limit the version
> from major version changes. But with 2.0.0 foo, it will break the
> installation of 2014.1 A, because current development can't predict every
> incompatible changes in the future.
>
> A real example is to enable Rally for OpenStack Juno. Rally doesn't
> support old release officially but I could checkout its codes to the Juno
> release date which make both codes match. However even if I use the old
> requirements.txt to install dependencies, there must be many packages are
> installed as upstream versions and some of them breaks. An ugly way is to
> copy pip list from old Juno environment and install those properly. I hope
> there are better ways to do this work. Anyone has smart ideas?
>
> --
> Gareth
>
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