[openstack-dev] Novaclient and Extensions

Dean Troyer dtroyer at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 21:18:58 UTC 2012


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Matt Dietz <matt.dietz at rackspace.com> wrote:
> You're right, good point re: difference between vendor created and
> packaged/repo materials. My viewpoint is that the difference is mostly
> semantic. Whether the delta is extension based or version based, the end
> result is the cloud I'm running is different from the cloud you're
> running. To the end users we're attempting to appeal to, they won't know
> or care about the difference. It's difficult to argue when the difference
> still exists in an Openstack world without API extensions.

The difference is what comes in the box.  I'm assuming that the
clients will include support for exactly the extensions that are
shipped by the servers.  Vendor-specific extensions fall outside that
category.  And we already have that case with two prominent OpenStack
implementations.

dt

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Dean Troyer
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