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From: Anders Ingemann <[email protected]>
Date: 16 September 2013 01:15
Subject: Re: build-debian-cloud python version preview
To: Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]>


On 16 September 2013 01:12, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> FWIW I'm hoping to find time to add Google Compute Engine support to the 
> Python version soon, but due to other deadlines at work, it might have to 
> wait beyond this month. I might also need to send a small number of 
> additional PRs to the shell version, but hopefully not too many or for too 
> long. Looking forward to the Pythonic future!
>
> - Jimmy
>
> On Sep 15, 2013 4:52 PM, "Anders Ingemann" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 15 September 2013 22:11, Marcin Kulisz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2013-08-15 09:14:39, olivier sallou wrote:
>>> > Le 15 août 2013 08:58, "Marcin Kulisz" <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>> > > > Right now the "release" cycle of the python version is simply too
>>> > > > rapid to make a packaged version and I am unsure whether it is going
>>> > > > to slow down sufficiently over the next year to actually release a
>>> > > > packaged version.
>>> > >
>>> > > To be honest I started working on packaging python version and should 
>>> > > have
>>> > > something once I'm back home from my holiday (another few weeks).
>>> > > Once it's build I'm going to drop it into alioth and mentors and will 
>>> > > drop an
>>> > > info into this list that it's ready.
>>> >
>>> > Let's focus on a version considered stable by Anders (tagged in github) 
>>> > for
>>> > python version.
>>>
>>> If you're talking about shell version I my opinion it's no go as it's
>>> downloading resources from 3rd party sites like euca2ools, boto patches 
>>> etc..
>>> I don't think it's appropriate or policy valid to put such kind of soft into
>>> archive. Of course we can remove those obstructions, but question is how far
>>> away are we from having python version available.
>>>
>>> Beside after short conversation with Anders I prefer not to put current
>>> 'stable' version into Debian archive.
>>>
>>> Hopefully I won't reveal any secret that Anders is very close to release 
>>> alpha
>>> version for the python rewrite.
>>>
>>> > Once package is ready and dropped to mentors, put me in copy, I will try 
>>> > to
>>> > mentor the package.
>>>
>>> Np will do it.
>>> I the mean time if you want to use package I prepared for master branch I 
>>> can
>>> reupload it to mentors just let me know.
>>> It's build on the latest commit from master with small patch to make Debian
>>> stuff working.
>>> --
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> > Hopefully I won't reveal any secret that Anders is very close to release 
>> > alpha version for the python rewrite.
>> No worries, you aren't :-)
>> My main focus has actually been on virtualbox, because it's perfect to test 
>> bootloading  etc. on.
>> This also brings the challenge of partitioning, which opened up a pandoras 
>> box of issues.
>> Right now I am working on a changeset that involves around +1000 lines and 
>> -400 lines.
>> Partitioning also means that we can get ec2 hvm images up and running (and 
>> partitioning is generally speaking not such a bad idea ^^).
>> I have not had a look at the kvm part yet, but I suspect that adjusting it 
>> is going to be quite easy.
>>
>> Also I am pulling quite a bit of dependencies into the host right now.
>> qemu-utils, parted, grub2, euca2ools and xfsprogs if you want to use XFS as 
>> a filesystem
>> The following python libraries are required:
>> boto, jsomschema v2, termcolor, fysom


*sigh, and once more for the mailing list. When will gmail have
mailing-list reply auto-detect figured out Jimmy? :-P

> it might have to wait beyond this month
No worries, I think it's actually for the better. This way I have some
time to get the architecture right before too many provider tasks
begin to lock it down.


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