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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On August 12, 2009, Karl Fogel wrote:
> I've had a multi-day yak-shaving spree with launchpadlib.  Is this list
> the right place to discuss launchpadlib?  Let's find out...
>
> Summary: launchpadlib depends on lazr.restful, apparently just for the
> tests.  However, this seems to make installs of trunk launchpadlib fail,
> as per this transcript: http://paste.ubuntu.com/252186/
>
> My conversation with William Grant about it:
>
>   <wgrant>   kfogel: That's installing faaaar too much stuff. Like
>              lazr.restful.
>
>   <wgrant>   kfogel: Although if you want to run the tests properly, I
>              guess you need that.
>
>   <kfogel>   wgrant: I thought launchpadlib depends on lazr.restful?  (was
>              told by jml or barry it does)
>
>   <wgrant>   kfogel: lazr.restful is the server-side.
>
>   <wgrant>   kfogel: And depends on a large portion of the ZTK.
>
>   <kfogel>   wgrant: that makes sense.  So why would launchpadlib depend
>              on it?
>
>   <wgrant>   kfogel: For tests.
>
>   * wgrant checks how to make it stop.
>
>   <wgrant>   kfogel: ARGH WTF
>
>   <wgrant>   lazr.restfulclient specifies a runtime dependency on
>              lazr.restful
>
>   <wgrant>   == insane
>
>   <kfogel>   wgrant: that does indeed sound like insanity.
>
>   <wgrant>   And as it's all inside stupid eggs, it's probably easier to
>              make lazr.lifecycle work properly.
>
>   <wgrant>   And I'm not sure what's wrong there.
>
>   <kfogel>   wgrant: I'm going to post about this launchpadlib problem on
>              launchpad-dev@.
>
>   <wgrant>   kfogel: Good idea.
>
> I *think* there is a bug here, but wanted more understanding before
> filing.  Hence this post.  Thoughts?
>

Yes, that's a bug in lazr.restfulclient. The dependencies on lazr.restful 
should be optional (for tests). lazr.restful already has optional tests 
dependencies, so that should be used as an example.


-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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