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Agreed, no intention of doing that

-----Original Message-----
From: Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com>
Reply-To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
<openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:44 PM
To: "openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Novaclient and Extensions

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>On 12/18/2012 11:48 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 18, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Matt Dietz <matt.dietz at rackspace.com
>> <mailto:matt.dietz at rackspace.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I agree with this
>>>
>>> The only thing I would add is it would be ideal if the extensions were
>>> treated explicitly as extensions. More specifically, if the client
>>> documentation made it clear that extension X might not be available
>>> across all openstack clouds. That the client currently sorts the
>>> extensions docstrings in with the rest of the core functionality could
>>> lead to some confusion down the road.
>> 
>> I think we are on the same page here. I'd like to outline a few steps:
>> 
>> a) Add some logic in novaclient to only show extensions which have a
>> matching endpoint if nova help is called with credentials
>> b) Move all existing extension functionality into the
>> novaclient/v1_1/contrib/ dir
>> c) Update the client documentation to make it clear which functionality
>> is extension based.
>> 
>> This should be fairly easy for the large blocks of extension
>> functionality (e.g. os-networks) but it will be tricky for the
>> extensions that add extra parameters to existing commands. We may be
>> able to figure out how to tag which options are enabled by which
>> extensions, but if not we could at the very least add some comments to
>> the help text like (requires os-keypairs extension)
>> 
>> We should be careful about moving around classes for people using
>> python-novaclient as a library as well.
>
>I would like to raise my hand on behalf of the OpenStack CI
>infrastructure as a user of python-novaclient as a library. All of the
>devstack-gate nodes are spun up using python-novaclient as a library.
>Please no breaky! :)
>
>Monty
>
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