+1 to having this in core. On 10 Sep 2013, at 22:22, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote:
> All, > > Over the weekend I migrated some of my domains to a different DNS provider ( > http://www.tomaz.me/2013/09/07/exporting-libcloud-dns-zone-to-bind-zone-file-format-and-migrating-between-dns-providers.html > so > I wrote a very simple script which allows you to export Libcloud zone to > BIND zone format. > > Script is available at > https://github.com/Kami/python-libcloud-dns-to-bind-zone/blob/master/libcloud_to_bind/__init__.py > > I believe this functionality would be useful in Libcloud core so I propose > the addition of the following methods to the base DNS driver: > > - Zone.export_to_bind_format(file_obj) > - driver.export_zone_to_bind_format(zone, file_obj) > > Some people might ask why would we add this to the core, but not > functionality for exporting VMs to different formats: > > - VM export functionality is not supported by every provider. > - This code is simple and has no external dependencies. VM conversion code > would be anything but simple. Besides that, there are already other tools > which can do this (there is a redhat tool which can do that, but I can't > remember the name atm). > > I would love to hear other people's opinion. Do you think this would be > useful in the core? Do you think this belongs in the core? > > Thanks, > Tomaz
