I agree that the Karaf based tooling is a little heavy just to provide a CLI. If jclouds was already using osgi for other things it would be ok, but its a bit painful if it is not a daily use type of thing. I haven’t tried out blobstore-cli but it looks really nice. There could also be some room for improvement in the Karaf bits so if it helps at all, I will give it some attention.
Chris -- Chris Custine On July 30, 2014 at 5:30:03 PM, Andrew Gaul (g...@apache.org) wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 03:06:40AM +0000, Everett Toews wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2014, at 9:16 PM, Andrew Phillips wrote: > > > > > As regards karaf and cli: would they belong in core, or in tools or > > > elsewhere? They're > really more downstream consumers of jclouds than *parts* of jclouds > themselves. > > > > Originally I thought of the tools dir as just being a collection of scripts > > but it could > be more than that. If we did put karaf and cli and the BlobStore stuff in > there it’s clear > that it would become something of a catch-all for jclouds related stuff that > we want to > keep close. I’m not necessarily against that but we need to be clear about > the intention > of the tools dir. > > > > Personally, I’ve never used karaf or the cli so I don’t feel strongly about > > where they > go or even if they stay within our repo. I hope the maintainers of these > things speak up > here. > > The frequently-suggested blobstore tools are much smaller than karaf and > potentially a much larger user base; these could help users diagnose > connectivity, authentication, proxy, and other configuration issues in a > dependable way instead of the zoo of user application problems, > including logging. Further there is a legitimate administrative use and > potentially a way to reach new users. Check out how clean BlobStoreCli > is compared to anything in karaf/cli: > > https://github.com/andrewgaul/jclouds/blob/blobstore-cli/blobstore-cli/src/main/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/cli/BlobStoreCli.java > > > I would really like to find a way forward on these tools. > > -- > Andrew Gaul > http://gaul.org/ >
