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

[Louis Zuckerman]

Adding development headers to the deb has been on my todo list for a week
already.  I'll get on that Real Soon Now (in the next few days, I hope).
 I'll probably ping on IRC when I'm working on it.

Thanks!

-louis


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:33 PM, 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.
>
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>>
>>    * 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.
>
> --
>
> Kaleb
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