Open Stack

Le 11/01/2016 10:37, Thierry Carrez a écrit :
> Joshua Harlow wrote:
>> [...]
>> So I'd def help keep prettytable going, of course another option is to
>> move to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate (which does seem active
>> and/or maintained); tabulate provides pretty much the same thing
>> (actually more table formats @
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate#table-format ) than prettytable
>> and the api is pretty much the same (or nearly).
>>
>> So that's another way to handle this (just to move off prettytable
>> entirely).
>
> This sounds like a reasonable alternative...


IMHO contributing to an actively developped library (tabulate) seems 
more productive than starting to maintain a second library which is 
currently no more maintained.

Does anyone know how much code should be modified to replace prettytable 
with tabulate on the whole OpenStack project?

--

I don't like the global trend in OpenStack to create a new community 
separated from the Python community. In general, OpenStack libraries 
have too many dependencies and it's harder to contribute to other 
projects. Gerrit is less popular than Github, and OpenStack requires to 
sign a contributor agreement. I would prefer to stop moving things into 
OpenStack and continue to contribute to existing projects, as we already do.

(I also know why projects are moved into OpenStack "big tent", they are 
some good arguments.)

Well, that's my feeling that OpenStack and Python communities are 
splitted, maybe I'm wrong ;-) I just want to avoid what happened in 
Zope: a lot of great code and great libraries, but too many dependencies 
and at the end a different community.

Victor