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[Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/03/2012 08:43 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hey all!
>> 
>> One of the tasks from the last ODS was to implement a single
>> global dependency list. Turns out the more you think about it, the
>> more important it is... because of the way we use devstack as part
>> of the gate, we actually _currently_ have a de facto global
>> dependency list, it's just not declared anywhere. (oops)
>> 
>> Anyway - the original thought was to put the depends in 
>> openstack-common. We'd use update.py to copy the depends in to the 
>> project, so that projects could align on their own timeframe. 
>> Additionally, we'd make the copy only copy in the versions from 
>> openstack-common for package that were already listed in the
>> target project, so that we wouldn't add django to
>> python-swiftclient, for instance.
>> 
>> The mechanics of that all work and are ready - but then bcwaldon
>> pointed out that it didn't make a ton of sense for them to go in 
>> openstack-common, since that has its own lifecycle and is a place
>> for common code to go - not just a catch all place.
>> 
>> To that end, I took the code we had written for the update logic
>> and put it, along with the depends lists, into its own repo. I
>> think we're ready to start actually moving forward with it - but
>> we've run up against the hardest problem we every have:
>> 
>> naming
>> 
>> openstack-depends already got vetoed on IRC because it makes
>> people think of adult diapers. I'm proposing openstack-requires,
>> since the files we're talking about are actually python
>> requirements files.
>> 
>> Any objections?
> 
> +0 on the name
> 
> As an alternative, how about combining the requirements file with the
> other packaging related stuff from openstack-common and calling the
> result openstack-packaging?

Interesting. Which other packaging stuff? Do you mean the stuff in
openstack/common/setup.py?