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On 17.04.20 17:14, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 15:35 +0200, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Many of the projects have [1] Babel in requirements.txt. I'm not sure
>> why it was needed initially, but now Babel is only used in the
>> translation infrastructure to manage the catalogs. Particularly, it's
>> not imported in runtime by anything (oslo.i18n has recently removed
>> [2] its usage). The problem is, Babel weighs nearly 30MiB (estimated
>> on a venv), making it probably the heaviest dependency we have.
>>
>> According to amotoki, we don't need Babel anywhere in the
>> requirements, since the translation infrastructure installs it
>> explicitly [3][4]. Sphinx has a requirement on Babel, so doc and
>> release note builds will be fine as well. I suggest that all projects
>> remove an explicit requirement on Babel completely.
> 
> Looking at [1] it seems we're not using the setuptools entry point
> either. Does that mean we can drop the '[extract_messages]',
> '[compile_catalog]' and '[update_catalog]' sections from 'setup.cfg'
> also?

Since we use "pybabel extract", I think we can - but in that case, let's
first update the documentation:

https://docs.openstack.org/i18n/latest/project_setup.html#python-projects

Andreas
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