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On 07/23/2015 11:41 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 07/23/2015 11:23 AM, Roman Podoliaka wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> FWIW, this is exactly what we have in oslo libs, e.g. in oslo.db [0]
>>
>> Putting all Nova options into one big file is probably not a good
>> idea, still we could consider storing those per-package (per backend,
>> per driver, etc), rather than per Python module to reduce the number
>> of possible circular imports when using import_opt() helper.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Roman
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/openstack/oslo.db/blob/master/oslo_db/options.py
>
> Actually, we just happened to be discussing this at the Nova meetup this
> morning. And the general consensus was the opposite. It would be better
> to collect all the config options in one file, especially if we are
> going to expand the help (which we would like to do). Exceptions are
> done that way in Nova.
>
> Michael Still is going to propose some initial patches to get this
> rolling. We don't expect this to be a big bang, but in chunks as the
> help is being improved.

yay! I've always hated the define-a-config-option-in-a-module stuff that 
we decided to bring over from the days of using the gflags library.

Best,
-jay