On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 02:53:41PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 03:16:10PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We have several scripts spread in the source, typically installed in
> >> /usr/libexec/vdsm.
> >> We had a useless WHITELIST[1], trying to compile these scripts with python3, and
> >> we have similar (but working) whitelist for pyflakes and pep8.
> >>
> >> To simplify the various checks, I think we need to to do this:
> >> 1. Keep .py suffix for all python files
> >> 2. Move all scripts to helpers/ ([2] handles storage scripts)
> >> 3. During installation, strip the .py suffix.
> >>
> >> With these changes, we can use the various checking commands on the entire
> >> source tree.
> >>
> >> For example, these commands check the entire tree:
> >>
> >>     PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 python3 -m compileall -f -x '(\.tox/|\.git/)' .
> >>     pep8 .
> >>     pyflakes .
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> [1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/58204
> >> [2] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/57363
> >
> > Sounds good, though I'd love to keep the separation of scripts into
> > their natuaral vertical. Keep storage understand storage, etc. Why are
> > you piling them into one source directory?
>
> This is a separate topic.
>
> The helpers do not belong in the library - we should keep libv/vdsm/xxx
> with only the code that is needed for the xxx package. Helpers are external
> programs that should have access only to public vdsm apis, so they don't
> need to and should not have access to other files inside lib/vdsm/xxx.
>
> This also make the source easier to understand, the structure is closer to
> the final structure after installation.
>
> So we can have:
>
> helpers/storage
> helpers/virt
> ...
>
> But I don't see any value in this separation, we have only about 10
> helpers.
>
> Also each directory we add adds overhead of more useless autotools
> files to maintain. Look how many makefiles we got rid by moving all the
> tests to one directory.

Ok, I'm convinced.

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