[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] The new ginger-basic plugin

Wed Aug 26 19:10:15 UTC 2015

On 08/27/2015 12:33 AM, Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital wrote:
> Supporting what Kevin mentioned, once PEP8 allows underscores, I think 
> that ginger_base, ginger_ppc, etc is better than name with no division.
I know that it improves readability, but on the other hand PEP8 
guidelines discouraging usage of under score too in the module naming 
convention.
Also think of how the REST API URI should look like.
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:38 PM Kevin Zander 
> <klzander at linux.vnet.ibm.com <mailto:klzander at linux.vnet.ibm.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 23:50 +0530, Chandra Shehkhar Reddy Potula
>     wrote:
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     Do we need to consider PEP 8 guidelines while naming the plugin ?
>>     https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#package-and-module-names
>
>     PEP8 allows underscores. This could solve the problem I think.
>     ginger_base, ginger_ppc, etc.
>
>>
>>     I see some issue by having "-" in the python plugin naming
>>     convention (ex: ginger-base), as import will not work directly.
>>     Example: in the consider tests/test_host.py file, which contains
>>     statement
>>     from kimchi.mockmodel import MockModel
>>
>>     when moved to ginger-base plugin become
>>
>>     from ginger-base.mockmodel import MockModel
>>     python import will not recognize the module name with "-"
>>
>>     I could overcome that by :
>>     |importimportlib mod =importlib.import_module("path.to.my-module")
>>     or ||module =__import__("|||path.to.my-module|")|
>>
>>     But I feel, It is not adhering PEP 8 guidelines.
>>
>>     So my proposal would be not to have "-" in the module name ?  ie.
>>     gingerbase, gingerppc, gingers390x etc.. if so even api has to
>>     have the same convention ?
>>
>>     Any better suggestions are welcome.
>>
>>     Thanks and Regards
>>     Chandra
>>
>>     On 08/12/2015 06:39 PM, Chandra Shehkhar Reddy Potula wrote:
>>>     Fine with me !!!
>>>
>>>     On 08/12/2015 06:13 PM, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On 08/12/2015 09:08 AM, Aline Manera wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     On 11/08/2015 13:27, Kevin Zander wrote:
>>>>>>     On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 11:47 -0300, Aline Manera wrote:
>>>>>>>     Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     As we have agreed on moving the Kimchi Host tab to Ginger
>>>>>>>     community and creating a new plugin (ginger-basic), I want
>>>>>>>     to list step-by-step what we need to do *on Kimchi side*.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     1) Will we call this new plugin as ginger-basic? Any other
>>>>>>>     suggestion?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     I think keeping it as ginger is better. ginger-basic sounds
>>>>>>     like there's ginger-advanced (or similar), when there really
>>>>>>     isn't anything like that. What we have is just additional
>>>>>>     functionality based on your OS flavor. So keeping ginger as
>>>>>>     the plugin name, to me, is the easiest. Then all it takes is
>>>>>>     looking up your flavor: ginger-[ppc|z|pickled].
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     About the plugin name: does ginger-base sound better? As it
>>>>>     will the base for all the other ginger plugins which will
>>>>>     extend the Host tab.
>>>>
>>>>     'ginger-base' looks OK to me
>>>>
>>>>     The other plug-in can be called simply 'ginger' in this case.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     2) Create the new plugin structure into wok branch, ie,
>>>>>>>     create a directory named ginger-basic (?) and all it is
>>>>>>>     needed to launch it as a wok plugin, including building and
>>>>>>>     packaging details.
>>>>>>>         In this first moment, the entire Host tab will be part
>>>>>>>     of the ginger-basic - just to move the discussion as soon as
>>>>>>>     possible to Ginger community.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     3) Add ginger-basic plugin as a Kimchi dependency.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Once we have those items done, I will create a new
>>>>>>>     repository for ginger-basic under kimchi-project
>>>>>>>     organization in Github.
>>>>>>>     After that, the discussion *will be moved to Ginger
>>>>>>>     community*, ie, all patches and discussion must be sent to
>>>>>>>     the Ginger mailing list
>>>>>>>     (https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ginger-dev-list)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     I have sent to Ginger community the next steps to be done
>>>>>>>     there. Please, check: "[Ginger-dev-list] [RFC] Inheriting
>>>>>>>     Kimchi's Host tab"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Let me know what you think about that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Regards,
>>>>>>>     Aline Manera
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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