[Openstack] [glance] legacy client removal and python-glanceclient

Christoph Hellwig Christoph.Hellwig at nebula.com
Tue Jul 31 22:34:56 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 15:17 -0700, Brian Waldon wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 11:41 -0700, Brian Waldon wrote:
> >> released python-glanceclient v0.2.0 and would love to gather some
> >> feedback. Please file bugs on the python-glanceclient project in
> >> launchpad if you find anything to be missing.
> > 
> > What is the plan to deal with the fact that the user interface for both
> > clients is entirely difference despite using the "glance" binary name?
> > 
> > That is an upgrade story with the biggest amount of pain possible
> > inflicted on users.
> > 
> 
> 
> I definitely understand that it's painful, but I'm not sure of what the
> best solution would be. How would you prefer this situation be handled?

Make sure to give the new client a different name, e.g. a glance-client
binaries name and non-overlapping names for all other files as well.

That way people can have both clients installed at the same time.







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