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On 06/20/2013 12:00 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Christopher Yeoh wrote:
>> Just wondering what people thought about how necessary it is to keep XML
>> support for the Nova v3 API, given that if we want to drop it doing so
>> during the v2->v3 transition is pretty much the ideal time to do so.
> 
> Although I hate XML as much as anyone else, I think it would be
> interesting to raise that question on the general user mailing-list.
> 
> We have been discussing that in the past, and while there was mostly
> consensus against XML (in OpenStack API) on the development list, when
> the issue was raised with users, in the end they made up a
> sufficiently-good rationale for us to keep it in past versions of the API :)
> 

Yes, and I suspect we'd arrive the same result again.

I'd rather hear ideas for things that would make it easier to support
both.  The window is open for changes to make that easier.

-- 
Russell Bryant