> On Jan 15, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Doug Hellmann <d...@doughellmann.com> wrote: > > As part of the work on dropping the use of the oslo namespace [1], many of > our library repositories now have 2 sets of tests. One set is under the new > package (for example, “oslo_config/tests”), and uses the new import scheme > (“from oslo_config import cfg”). To protect against regressions in the old > public API, we have kept the original copies of the tests in a directory at > the top level of the repository using the old import names (“from oslo.config > import cfg”). The logic of most of the tests are identical now, aside from > differences in the imports. > > For new code, we only need to add tests in the new location inside the > library package (“oslo_config/tests”). New symbols do not need to work > through the old namespace, so using a new function or class may require > updating imports in a consuming project. > > The tests for the old public API should not be modified, except as we find > redundancy that we can delete for testing private symbols. I did clean up > some of the tests as I went along, but in a lot of cases it was faster to > just update the imports. After we have all of the libraries released, I plan > to spend more time going through the test suites and cleaning them up > carefully, but that’s not a high priority task. > > My goal is to be able to remove both the old namespace package and the > related tests during the next cycle. We will have to check adoption progress > as we get close to the end of Kilo to determine whether that is possible. > Liaisons, please assume that we’re going to try to do it and work on updating > all consuming projects. > > Doug >
The missing footnote: [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo-incubator/+spec/drop-namespace-packages __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
