GSoC 2008: netconf suggesion
Andreas Louca
alouca at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 10:57:45 UTC 2008
Hey,
I'll send a roadmap later on today.
See my answers inline.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:08 PM, martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> wrote:
> also sprach Andreas Louca <alouca at gmail.com> [2008.03.27.1038 +0100]:
>
> > I don't think its gonna take a long time to form a framework in
> > Python. It would also provide a guideline for APIs when the port for
> > C/C++ is due. However, if the project is just for a proof-of-concept,
> > I agree that this can be omitted.
>
> No, netconf is not proof-of-concept, although I am fully aware that
> it may need a rewrite between 1.0 and 2.0.
>
> I guess I don't know enough about what you mean with "framework" to
> be able to agree or disagree. In general, when someone says that
> a programming project won't take a long time, I grow *very*
> suspicious.
What I meant it doesn't take a long time to define a few API calls,
that would be a guideline for later.
>
>
> > By UI programs I meant for every program that needed to change any
> > configuration, either via dbus or a socket. I think dbus is the
> > way to go.
>
> Please see the thread on the mailing list about this. I don't think
> dbus is the way to go at the core, but there should be an adapter
> for dbus, which communicates with the netconf daemon via the control
> socket. The reason is simply that dbus is too complicated and too
> hard to use from e.g. shell scripts for such an important and core
> tool. But it's useful, it should be optional however.
>
>
> > > > Or via any other communication route. It's a UNIX socket in the
> > > > current implementation, and it will probably stay, but there may
> > > > be additional methods as well (such as web-based), if it's up to
> > > > me. :-)
> > >
> > > Ew! :)
> > Why not?:P
>
> Is this a serious question about a web-based interface to a network
> configuration management system?
No, I was kidding!
>
> Obviously, I won't oppose to it because if people want it, it should
> come into existence, but it's definitely far outside of any scope
> I am willing to see through, mentor, support, or honour for the 1.0
> release.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
>
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