[Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

Ewan Mellor Ewan.Mellor at eu.citrix.com
Fri Jul 8 12:20:51 UTC 2011


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> The whole point of supporting the EC2 API is to support people's
> existing tools and whatnot. If we follow the spec, but the clients
> don't work, we're doing it wrong.

True enough.  However, in the case where we've got a demonstrated divergence from the spec, we should report that against the client.  I agree that we want to support pre-existing tools, but it's less clear that we want to support _buggy_ tools.

If Amazon turn out to be resistant to fixing that problem, then we'll obviously have to accept that and move on, but we should at least give them a chance to respond on that.

Cheers,

Ewan.



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