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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-python <gentoo-python@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-python] dev-python/requests api changes
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:28:55
Message-Id: 50E4603C.6040900@gentoo.org
1 requests seems to break its api frequently, which sucks for having it
2 installed system-wide.
3
4 The few packages that depend on it have < or = deps in the tree. This
5 sucks because it could cause dependency conflicts.
6
7 * These packages depend on requests:
8 dev-python/python-keystoneclient-0.2.1 (dev-python/requests)
9 dev-python/python-keystoneclient-9999 (dev-python/requests)
10 dev-python/python-novaclient-2.10.0 (test ? dev-python/requests)
11 dev-python/python-novaclient-9999 (test ? dev-python/requests)
12 dev-python/sphinxcontrib-issuetracker-0.10.1 (>=dev-python/requests-0.13)
13 net-misc/flexget-1.0_beta3181 (=dev-python/requests-0.14*)
14 net-misc/flexget-9999 (=dev-python/requests-0.14*)
15 net-misc/httpie-0.3.0 (>=dev-python/requests-0.10.1)
16 net-misc/httpie-0.3.0-r1 (>=dev-python/requests-0.10.1)
17 (<dev-python/requests-1.0)
18 net-misc/httpie-0.3.1 (>=dev-python/requests-0.10.1)
19 (<dev-python/requests-1.0)
20
21 I follow flexget somewhat closely, and their upstream is probably in no
22 hurry to port it to the new api. They suggest using a virtualenv instead
23 of installing it system-wide.
24
25 The QA team would probably tell us to mask requests-1.0* or the reverse
26 dependencies. Any preference here?
27
28 Does anyone have any better ideas?

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Re: [gentoo-python] dev-python/requests api changes Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>