On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:09 PM, James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis
<gerhardus.geldenhuis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:32 PM, James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net> wrote:
>>
>> This was changed due to the fact that both cobblerd and things
>> interacting with the API might write files at the same time and the
>> other would have no clue about it. This lead to a lot of weird race
>> conditions and data loss, so it was decided everything should be done
>> through cobblerd over xmlrpc. I have at times considered writting a
>> REST API for cobbler, however I have not done so as I don't think
>> there's any real demand for it.
>
> Thanks for the clarification James. Is there any point then in still having
> the API or mentioning of it anyway? Would it not be less confusing to
> archive mentioning of it on the wiki and concentrate on xmlrpc in the wiki?
> I would be happy to do the legwork to get it done if there is enough
> consensus.

Probably wouldn't be a bad idea, knowledge of the boot api is only
really required if you'd want to replace XMLRPC with some other
system. Feel free to tackle it :)

Done,
I have removed mentioning of the API on https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/DeveloperDocs
and I have updated the old API page to refer to the this email thread.

Regards
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Gerhardus Geldenhuis