Excerpts from Victor Stinner's message of 2015-11-10 15:30:18 +0100: > Hi, > > In oslo_config/cfg.py, there is a main Opt class which takes an optional > type parameter (default is oslo_config.types.String). But there is also > a long list of XxxOpt classes: StrOpt, BoolOpt, FloatOpt, ListOpt, > IPOpt, etc. Recently I saw *new* classes added with the "kept for > backward-compatibility" comment, comment copied from existing classes. > > What is the plan for these XxxOpt classes? Is there a clear plan to > deprecate them and remove them? Or can we agree on keeping them and so > removing the comment? > > It looks like oslo_config.cfg.Opt is *never* used directly in OpenStack. > Only specialized options StrOpt, IntOpt etc. are used. > > So the obvious choice is to remove the comment, right? > > Victor >
+1 for removing the comment. I think the intent was to have folks use Opt with type set to something specific, but that's a lot of rework for little gain. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
