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

[Martin Kosek]

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