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On Tue, Nov 10 2015, Victor Stinner wrote:

> It was also proposed to reuse openstackclient or the openstack SDK. I don't
> understand how novaclient can use openstackclient, since openstackclient
> depends on python-novaclient... The OpenStack SDK project is also a large
> library no? (I don't know well the OpenStack SDK project.)

I'd think the idea was rather to reuse openstack-sdk in novaclient, no?

There's often confusion about openstackclient and openstack-sdk, so
might be the source of that.

> I would prefer to move cliutils.py to oslo.utils. Only 3 clients use
> cliutils.py but don't depend on oslo.utils yet. The 8 remaining clients using
> cliutils.py already depends on oslo.utils.
>
> An alternative is to create yet another oslo library. But it means creating a
> library for a single file of 280 lines.
> 
> What do you think?

What about killing it?

> On 29 "python-*client" projects, I found 11 clients using cliutils.py:
>
> python-ceilometerclient

We barely use it and I pretty sure we'll kill it in the long run.

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Julien Danjou
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