[Rdo-list] python-*client packaging

[Steven Hardy]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:47:46PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 06/02/2014 01:04 PM, Steven Hardy wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 09:46:42AM -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
> >>> What about the point that the CI runs on what gets uploaded to pypi
> >>> and therefore the random commits are not as thoroughly tested?
> >>
> >> The commits are tested just like anything else, but projects that *use*
> >> the client don't gate on the new code until it is released. So, a commit
> >> to novaclient runs a full nova stack just like a nova patch would, and
> >> should have anything else that uses it (like neutron) run against it as
> >> well, which should prevent merging a patch against novaclient that
> >> breaks neutron.
> > 
> > Exactly, so by taking a random git version you run a greater risk of
> > regressions/interface changes breaking projects which depend on the client,
> > so it's essential you re-test every client-consuming project, which doesn't
> > happen as part of the *client gate run (but does indirectly after a
> > release, because client-consuming projects have their gates break).
> 
> Um, are you sure?  I thought clients were installed from the latest git
> just like everything else.

I'm referring to the unit tests, which is the most-frequently-broken thing
for Heat, the pypi version gets installed in the tox venv, not the git
master version.