At least for what I'm interested in is an API that is common across providers 
with different language bindings.  Your comment about DeltaCloud as an API 
seems to make it more general purpose and have a broader applicability for 
different language bindings.  At this point it is pretty similar to Libcloud in 
that it too has a set of drivers for different cloud vendors but it is a 
RESTful API on the front end which makes it different than Libcloud in that 
someone can create a number of language bindings independently.  One of my 
peeps had suggested a Libcloud driver for DeltaCloud but that just seems wrong 
on a few levels as we'd then have two compensation layers (Libcloud's driver 
and DeltaCloud's driver and then finally the target cloud provider).

It would be nice to wrap the two projects together and get the best of both 
worlds.  Language bindings to a common API.  Perhaps RedHat has some 
implementation of the DeltaCloud APIs that would be a direct implementer and 
not a compensation layer.


On May 18, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Adrian Cole wrote:

> We've modeled a few things that libcloud doesn't, so
> our model is bigger.  However, we do use the same names for the things that
> are in common.

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