On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 15:58 +0100, Michal Fojtik wrote: > Basically people ask me if there is a possibility to 'bypass' our REST > interface and use Deltacloud just like a gem (so their Ruby clients will > not need to speak with Deltacloud API but execute operations directly from > the drivers.
Yeah, I've gotten that, too. Usually, tell people that we have a ruby client which they can use, and the fact that they are going across a REST API is mostly invisible to them. There's a small amount of handwaving around the fact that you have to run a server - hoepfully we'll have public Deltacloud instances one day to moot that concern. > It seems to me like a way how 'fog' or 'libcloud' is going and I'm not sure > if we want to support this way as well. I don't want to go that way - we should stress that the value of Deltacloud lies in (a) the REST API and (b) that all the heavy lifting is done on the server, keeping the clients very simple. David
