[ovs-dev] [PATCH v5] JSON serialization via Python's json lib

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 06:55:49PM -0500, Terry Wilson wrote:
> Sigh. And of course I had libopenvswitch installed on the system as
> well and removing it breaks building the extensions with the above
> patch. This is the kind of thing that would be much easier if the
> Python lib was its own project with its own test suite and it could
> just always assume libopenvswitch was installed on the system as a
> build dependency.

The Open vSwitch build process uses some of the OVS Python libraries, so
as far as I can tell that would create a circular dependency.

I don't know what is the right thing to do.