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On 09/30/2015 10:08 AM, Dougal Matthews wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the standard practice for defining public API's for OpenStack
> libraries? As I am working on refactoring and updating tripleo-common I have
> to grep through the projects I know that use it to make sure I don't break
> anything.
>
> Personally I would choose to have a policy of "If it is documented, it is
> public" because that is very clear and it still allows us to do internal
> refactoring.
>
> Otherwise we could use __all__ to define what is public in each file, or
> assume everything that doesn't start with an underscore is public.
>
> Cheers,
> Dougal
>

Hi,
my preference would be to follow the same approach which is used in oslo 
libraries (I think these libs should be take as a best practice example 
if possible). And oslo libs AFAIK use the last of your options.

But if there is a plan to build some thin REST API layer on top if it, I 
think that versioning will be necessary. So I would lean to the default 
underscore convention in versioned directory structure :).

Jan