On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > On 9/30/2010 11:02 AM, Jerry Chen wrote: >> Hi Philip, >> >> On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I'd like to hear thoughts on adding a perl based libcloud. >>> >>> If I write something up would it be feasible to create sandbox/perl and >>> put it there? No need to do anything until I actually produce something. >> >> I would say the concerns with any additional languages are: > Well its going to be a lot close then the java one thats for sure. > >> >> - Proximity to the Python API in design >> - Supporting community for discussion and contributions >> - Code quality, documentation and tests > Ideally, in the future, all the static pricing, hosting server urls > should be in some common language and the language specific should be > generated out so there is 1 source.
That's a very interesting idea -- are there existing examples of this approach? I imagine you mean something like a master yaml, json or xml file and then a bunch of utility scripts to generate the corresponding files in other languages. > In the mean time, I think we should treat python like 'trunk' api > changes must go here then 'merged' (ported) to the other bindings. +1 > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1024D/DB9B8C1C B90B FBC3 A3A1 C71A 8E70 3F8C 75B8 8FFB DB9B 8C1C > Philip M. Gollucci ([email protected]) c: 703.336.9354 > VP Apache Infrastructure; Member, Apache Software Foundation > Committer, FreeBSD Foundation > Consultant, P6M7G8 Inc. > Sr. System Admin, Ridecharge Inc. > > Work like you don't need the money, > love like you'll never get hurt, > and dance like nobody's watching.
