Great. Thx! On 10/31/11 2:42 PM, "Jay Pipes" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi! GFlags has now been removed, AFAIK. The flags module has an optparse-based emulator for GFlags to ease transition for Nova joining the rest of the OpenStack core project implementations' use of standard config files/Paste.Deploy. Cheers, -jay On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Joshua Harlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if there is any plans in essex to standardize either using > gflags or using configuration files for these types of settings. > One of the complaints that I receive a lot with gflags is that by including > a python file, u automatically inject all of its flags (even if they are not > used) into gflags (since its global). > Thus say u are just using the nova-compute run time, but that itself > includes say "flags.py" which itself seems to be a common area for flags > that may or may not be used by that runtime. Similarly if a file is imported > has say 1 method used by the calling code but itself defines 10 flags (for > its components) then those 10 flags get injected. This makes it very > confusing to figure out what should be set (or what could be set). > > Has there been any thought on fixing this (or making a standard > recommendation that subprojects can follow) that would avoid this problem? > I could imagine fixes being in the code structure itself (having said 1 > method stated above not be in a file what pulls in other code that defines > 10 flags) or another type of configuration mechanism? > I think this was mentioned at the conference, but not sure what came out of > that :-) > > -Josh > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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