Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-09-07 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/16 19:28, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 31/08/16 20:55, David Sommerseth wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I have for a long time pondered on how we can make the management >> API more suitable for more modern tools and tasks. So I am just >> giving an

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-09-07 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/08/16 20:55, David Sommerseth wrote: > > Hi, > > I have for a long time pondered on how we can make the management > API more suitable for more modern tools and tasks. So I am just > giving an extremely early heads-up on on what I'm poking a

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-09-01 Thread debbie10t
On 01/09/16 21:56, David Sommerseth wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/09/16 22:14, debbie10t wrote: >> * If it sounds too good to be true .. then it probably is. > There's a good intro to D-Bus programming here, with focus on C: >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-09-01 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/09/16 22:14, debbie10t wrote: > * If it sounds too good to be true .. then it probably is. There's a good intro to D-Bus programming here, with focus on C: Here's one

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-09-01 Thread debbie10t
On 01/09/16 20:04, David Sommerseth wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 31/08/16 20:55, David Sommerseth wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have for a long time pondered on how we can make the management >> API more suitable for more modern tools and tasks. So I am just >> giving

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-09-01 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/08/16 20:55, David Sommerseth wrote: > > Hi, > > I have for a long time pondered on how we can make the management > API more suitable for more modern tools and tasks. So I am just > giving an extremely early heads-up on on what I'm poking at

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-09-01 Thread Jan Just Keijser
On 01/09/16 09:41, Samuli Seppänen wrote: > Il 01/09/2016 07:33, Selva Nair ha scritto: >> >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 7:19 PM, David Sommerseth >> > > wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 31/08/16 23:25, Selv

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-09-01 Thread Samuli Seppänen
Il 01/09/2016 07:33, Selva Nair ha scritto: > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 7:19 PM, David Sommerseth > > wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 31/08/16 23:25, Selva Nair wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Aug

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-08-31 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 7:19 PM, David Sommerseth < open...@sf.lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 31/08/16 23:25, Selva Nair wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:11 PM, David Sommerseth > > >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-08-31 Thread Jonathan K. Bullard
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:55 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > > > One of the things which have struck me is that D-Bus is adopted a lot > of places, and its internal API have been considered stable for about > 10 years or more. Even though there are areas where D-Bus seems a bit > over-engineered, i

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-08-31 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/08/16 23:25, Selva Nair wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:11 PM, David Sommerseth > > wrote: > > > It is not being planned to remove the management interface. If > > D-Bus works well

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-08-31 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:11 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > > It is not being planned to remove the management interface. If > > D-Bus works well for everyone on all platforms, then we can discuss > > what to do next. But as of now, I have no plans to remove this > > part of the code. > Th

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-08-31 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:37:11AM +0500, ?? wrote: > I'd bet many people would like to see REST here "if all you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" - which describes "let's add a REST interface to everyhing!" quite well. (And please do not top-quote full ma

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-08-31 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/08/16 21:37, Илья Шипицин wrote: > I'd bet many people would like to see REST here You might be right here. But that would actually be far more complicated to implement, as then OpenVPN needs to be a HTTP server - with all the complications tha

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-08-31 Thread Илья Шипицин
I'd bet many people would like to see REST here 2016-08-31 23:55 GMT+05:00 David Sommerseth < open...@sf.lists.topphemmelig.net>: > > Hi, > > I have for a long time pondered on how we can make the management API > more suitable for more modern tools and tasks. So I am just giving an > extremely

[Openvpn-devel] Modernising the management interface

2016-08-31 Thread David Sommerseth
Hi, I have for a long time pondered on how we can make the management API more suitable for more modern tools and tasks. So I am just giving an extremely early heads-up on on what I'm poking at ... and hopefully receive some feedbacks on what you think. One of the things which have struck me is