[openstack-dev] better name for placement

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Tue Sep 4 15:42:34 UTC 2018


Excerpts from Jay Pipes's message of 2018-09-04 10:05:28 -0400:
> On 09/04/2018 09:37 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> > On 2018-09-04 09:32:20 +0100 (+0100), Chris Dent wrote:
> > [...]
> >> it allowed for the possibility that there could be another project
> >> which provided the same service-type. That hasn't really come to
> >> pass
> > [...]
> > 
> > It still might make sense to attempt to look at this issue from
> > outside the limited scope of the OpenStack community. Is the
> > expectation that the project when packaged (on PyPI, in Linux
> > distributions and so on) will just be referred to as "placement"
> > with no further context?
> 
> I don't see any reason why the package name needs to be identical to the 
> repo name.
> 
> Is there a reason we couldn't have openstack-placement be the package name?

That would work fine. The package name is set in setup.cfg and we
have several examples where the value there and repo name don't
match.

Doug

> 
> Best,
> -jay
> 



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