[Gluster-devel] Proposal for 3.5: Make adding custom translators easy

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Kaleb KEITHLEY <kkeithle at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/15/2013 07:40 AM, Justin Clift wrote:
>>
>> On 15/08/2013, at 5:51 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:
>>>
>>> Here are some more points to consider:
>>>
>>>   * gluster-devel package should include all the necessary header and
>>> library files to compile a standalone glusterfs translator.
>>
>>
>> That definitely makes sense. :)
>
>
> We already have that in the RPMs, but not in the .debs though AFAIK.
>
>
>>
>>
>>>   * Modular GlusterFS CLI API. Today it is hard-coded.
>>
>>
>> Not so sure about this one.  Allowing for dynamic additions to
>> the CLI (eg using the meta-data in the JSON fragment) sounds like
>> a feature of it's own.
>
>
> Not just the CLI, don't forget we have a GUI too, with its own RESTful API.
>
> As for the CLI, I had half imagined that each translator came with one or
> two shared libs besides the translator itself, which are pluggable
> extensions to gluster, glusterd, and/or xlators/mgmt/glusterd. The retooling
> of gluster and glusterd to handle these seems like a fairly large task all
> by itself.

Lets do it in phases. Not all translators require changes to CLI. GUI
can catch up later.



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