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 >
