> From: Matthew Patton [mailto:mpat...@inforelay.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:20 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] VMware support was: Re: vijava - some additional > thoughts > Pardon my ignorance but why on earth would you NOT use the vendor > SDK/API or even their CLI tools? The point of cloud automation is to > sensibly and in the right order invoke the vendor's interfaces to accomplish > a task; NOT reinvent the damn wheel be it 'vijava' or any other half-assed > reimplementation. > > If the problem is vendor licensing terms not being compatible with Apache, > so be it. You simply exclude it from the distro but you point users at where > to get it and how to make any (minor) adjustments to cloudstack > configuration parameters. >
+1 Exactly my point. We should be using the official vendor tool whenever possible and if there is a license issue, point the users to how to get to those official tools. Less headache in the future. Will
