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> >Wouldn't we have to address the same kind of versioning issues?
>
> Angus Salkeld wrote:
> 
> Yes but a much simpler API:
> provide get_counters() and use Counter().
> 
> To my mind much less to go wrong.

OK, though as pointed out earlier in the thread, the virt polling API
would also be fairly simple and limited (though not necessarily
completely static and unchanging, hence the need for versioning).

> Thierry Carrez wrote:
>
> ...but without the process headaches of releasing that layer as a
> separate library. You'd still need to agree on an API contract between
> that plugin and Ceilometer, but it doesn't need to leak into release
> versioning.

OK, so this plugin would just be versioned with the master nova version
(e.g. 2012.2) and picked up by ceilo from a (complete) local nova install?

Cheers,
Eoghan