On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:32 PM, James Cammarata <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This was changed due to the fact that both cobblerd and things >> interacting with the API might write files at the same time and the >> other would have no clue about it. This lead to a lot of weird race >> conditions and data loss, so it was decided everything should be done >> through cobblerd over xmlrpc. I have at times considered writting a >> REST API for cobbler, however I have not done so as I don't think >> there's any real demand for it. > > Thanks for the clarification James. Is there any point then in still having > the API or mentioning of it anyway? Would it not be less confusing to > archive mentioning of it on the wiki and concentrate on xmlrpc in the wiki? > I would be happy to do the legwork to get it done if there is enough > consensus.
Probably wouldn't be a bad idea, knowledge of the boot api is only really required if you'd want to replace XMLRPC with some other system. Feel free to tackle it :) _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
