[Openstack] proposal for policy around and management of client libraries

Caitlin Bestler Caitlin.Bestler at nexenta.com
Mon Nov 7 21:25:29 UTC 2011


Monty Taylor wrote:

> OpenStack projects that need to depend on these will reference the git repo of the project in their
> tools/pip-requires file. This should take care of depends for developers. Normal installation depends
> can be taken care of by distro packagers as usual.

Why would an openstack project *need* to reference a client library of another openstack project?

Wouldn't requiring openstack projects to rely on the REST API of other projects eliminate a whole mess
of release dependencies?






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