Re: [Gluster-devel] Proposal for 3.5: Make adding custom translators easy

[Harshavardhana]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Justin Clift <address@hidden> wrote:

On 15/08/2013, at 7:33 PM, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
> On 08/15/2013 07:40 AM, Justin Clift wrote:
>> On 15/08/2013, at 5:51 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:

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>>>  * Modular GlusterFS CLI API. Today it is hard-coded.
>>
>> Not so sure about this one.  Allowing for dynamic additions to
>> the CLI (eg using the meta-data in the JSON fragment) sounds like
>> a feature of it's own.
>
> Not just the CLI, don't forget we have a GUI too, with its own RESTful API.

As a separate project, any thoughts on us replacing the current CLI with
a new one, based upon having a more complete RESTful API + a new CLI that
does nothing but be an interface to it?

In that case CLI can be completely re-written in python or any other language. This would eventually bring in more contributors to the project.

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