On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Jarret Raim <[email protected]> wrote:
> I vote for including cffi. We are going to use a cffi lib as part of Barbican > (key management) anyway, so I'd like to see wider acceptance. > > Jarret +1 cffi rocks Vish > > From: Alex Gaynor <[email protected]> > Reply-To: OpenStack List <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:12 PM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, OpenStack List > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Swift, netifaces, PyPy, and cffi > > I just chatted with the Python product owner at Red Hat, he says this is > going to make it's way to the next step later today (this past weekend was a > Fedora conference), so this should be happening soon. > > Joe: Yup, I'm familiar with that piece (I had lunch with Vish the other week > and he's the one who suggested Swift as the best place to get started with > OpenStack + PyPy). For those who don't know I'm one of the core developers of > PyPy :) > > Alex > > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Ben Nemec <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2013-08-13 16:58, Alex Gaynor wrote: >>> One of the issues that came up in this review however, is that cffi is >>> not packaged in the most recent Ubuntu LTS (and likely other >>> distributions), although it is available in raring, and in a PPA >>> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/python-cffi [2] >>> nd https://launchpad.net/~pypy/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=precise >>> [3] respectively). >>> >>> >>> As a result of this, we wanted to get some feedback on which direction >>> is best to go: >>> >>> a) cffi-only approach, this is obviously the simplest approach, and >>> works everywhere (assuming you can install a PPA, use pip, or similar >>> for cffi) >>> b) wait until the next LTS to move to this approach (requires waiting >>> until 2014 for PyPy support) >>> c) Support using either netifaces or cffi: most complex, and most >>> code, plus "one or the other" dependencies aren't well supported by >>> most tools as far as I know. >> >> It doesn't appear to me that this is available for RHEL yet, although it >> looks like they're working on it: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-cffi-0.6-4.el6 >> >> That's also going to need to happen before we can do this, I think. >> >> -Ben >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > -- > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to > say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) > "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero > GPG Key fingerprint: 125F 5C67 DFE9 4084 > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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