OpenStack nova package split

Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com
Wed Jul 25 17:25:50 UTC 2012


On 07/25/2012 04:07 PM, Robert Kukura wrote:
> On 07/25/2012 06:48 AM, Alan Pevec wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
>> <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> I think I'm in favour of keeping the 'openstack-' prefix on package names too.
> 
> Is the plan to leave all the python code in the python-nova package,
> with the openstack-* packages just adding init scripts, config, and
> dependencies? Or is the python code being split up as well?

Ideally we would like to split out more from python-nova
into each of the sub packages, which I'll look into.

> In quantum, the python-quantum package currently contains the quantum
> core python code, but the quantum plugin python code is in the
> openstack-quantum-<plugin> subpackages.
> 
> Is the current quantum approach consistent with the proposed approach
> for nova?

Yes. The more cohesive the packages the better,
irrespective of whether the components are code, config or whatever.

cheers,
Pádraig.


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