Build and distribute the fb303 python libraries along with thrift
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                 Key: THRIFT-1539
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1539
             Project: Thrift
          Issue Type: Wish
          Components: Build Process, Deployment, Python - Library
            Reporter: Morten Lied Johansen


[Scribe|https://github.com/facebook/scribe], which is another project open 
sourced by Facebook, depends on fb303 which is hidden away in the contrib 
directory of Thrift. If the fb303 library could be uploaded to PyPI along with 
the thrift library, it would be a lot easier to build and install Scribe. This 
might also be relevant to do for all languages that distribute libraries used 
by generated code, not just Python.

As far as I understand it, the fb303 library defines a useful API for long 
running services in general, so if it was distributed better, it might get a 
decent user base over time.

PS.
Yes, it seems silly that the Thrift project should maintain and distribute a 
library mostly (only?) used by a different, completely independent, project, 
but that's how Facebook decided to do it when they open sourced these things...

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