On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Colin McCabe <cmccabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: >>> Hi Sage, >>> >>> On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 11:56 -0800, Sage Weil wrote: >>> > Colin separated out the gui from the 'ceph' binary (it's gceph) in the >>> > unstable branch of git, which means we can break it into a separate >>> > package and eliminate all the gtk dependencies for the other stuff. >>> Yes, I've seen that, which was a very good decision. ceph is for every >>> kind of machines, mostly servers. There's no need other binaries (GTK+ >>> or others) that not strictly necessary to operate a service. They occupy >>> space and may expose security problems. On the other hand, I don't like >>> running GUIs when I'm on a slow connection (maybe just to fix a config >>> file from a PDA). >>> >>> > Maybe a ceph-gui, recommended by ceph? >>> It's up to you how to name it. As for the rule of thumb, packages named >>> after the binary they contain. So it should be gceph, but can be >>> ceph-gui if you want. >> >> I'm inclined to rename gceph to ceph-gui, actually, unless anyone has any >> strong opinions about it... > > I'll rename gceph -> ceph_gui to avoid any confusion. Er, that should read ceph-gui. Anyway, I'll push it to unstable in a little bit. Colin > >> >>> I was a bit lazy to check out, is ceph mandatory for using gceph? As >>> I've seen no, the logic remained in ceph.cc , the command line and gui >>> tool went to cmd.cc and gceph.cc respectively. >>> The question is, when do you want to merge these changes to rc? There >>> are unstable and gceph trees available, but are they for v0.24 or not? >> >> The binary is standalone. They should just recommend each other, I think. >> And this is all in the unstable branch (for v0.25), so we can just change >> it there. >> >> sage >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
