[Freeipa-devel] CSV support in IPA administration tools - to be, or not to be?

[Jan Cholasta]

On 10.1.2013 16:23, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 04:17 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Jan Cholasta wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 10.1.2013 14:14, Petr Spacek wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> is there any user of CSV support built-in to IPA administration tools
>>>> ("ipa" command)? Do you consider it sane or even useful? Please reply.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No and no. We should disable CSV in new installs. As you pointed out,
>>> shell does a better job than what we have in IPA.
>>>
>>> Honza
>>>
>>
>> We would need some sort of policy on how long to support deprecated API. That
>> is probably the most important piece.
>>
>> rob
>
> AFAIU, the API will not change as we do the CSV processing only on client side
> and send processed entries to the server. CSV processing on old clients should
> still work fine.
>
> Martin
>

Correct.

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Jan Cholasta