Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal to move the Python lib to its own repo

2016-12-16 Thread Russell Bryant
My take was that the primary benefit that would justify pursuing this would be an independent release schedule, but we don't have any changes (committed or pending) that raise that issue. The prime example for me was Python 3 support, where we really wanted it released, but had to wait about 8

Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal to move the Python lib to its own repo

2016-12-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'm worried that my response here effectively shut down the proposal. That wasn't my goal; if it's valuable, let's do it, but I want more information first. On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 09:42:46PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:29:51AM -0600, Terry Wilson wrote: > > The Python

Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal to move the Python lib to its own repo

2016-11-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:29:51AM -0600, Terry Wilson wrote: > The Python library isn't dependent on the code in the OVS tree. It > being in-tree has a few shortcomings. My rationale for recommending > the split: > > * Simple features and bugfixes for the Python lib can't be used by > other

[ovs-dev] Proposal to move the Python lib to its own repo

2016-11-15 Thread Terry Wilson
The Python library isn't dependent on the code in the OVS tree. It being in-tree has a few shortcomings. My rationale for recommending the split: * Simple features and bugfixes for the Python lib can't be used by other projects (like Neutron) until the very latest OVS release is widely supported