With the excellent rewrite of the docker instructions[1], I too think we
can remove the docker sdk from the cli (and nginx).

[1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/4451

-r

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:58 PM James Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does anyone have any objections to removing the "SDK" command from the wsk
> cli?
>
> I came across this "feature" again recently due to a user running into
> issues trying to use docker support in the platform. I've recently been
> updating the docs on the docker actions and think we should remove this
> command as it doesn't represent best practice for the platform anymore.
>
> The SDK was an old solution to utilising custom runtime images in the
> beginning of the project, before the docker support improved a lot. The
> "SDKs" are a series of old tar files download from the external source
> repository. Looking at the Docker SDK, it does not represent a sensible
> approach to using binaries on the platform now we have the dockerskeleton
> image. I didn't investigate the Swift SDK and wouldn't be sure if this even
> works anymore....
>
> I've never come across an external developer using these SDKs "in the wild"
> and can't see a valid use-case for continuing to provide them given all the
> changes in the platform since they were introduced.
>
> Does anyone have any comments? If not, I'll open a PR in the CLI to start
> removing them.
> --
> Regards,
> James Thomas
>

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