[Kimchi-devel] Make Kimchi free of Ginger Base

[Lucio Correia]

On 07/03/2017 15:25, Aline Manera wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Ginger Base (responsible to launch the Dashboard and Updates tabs under
> Host tab) is a Kimchi dependency because some users may be want to check
> host configuration and statistics when running multiple virtual machines
> as long as update the Kimchi package without the need to drop to the
> host console.
> I agree it is useful, but I don't think it is restricted related to
> virtualization. So my proposal is to make Kimchi free of Ginger Base and
> if user wants any host information he/she can install Ginger Base alone.
>
> What do you think about it?
>
> It is not just remove the Ginger Base package dependency because Kimchi
> uses some python modules from Ginger Base.
> So if you agree, I will work to remove the Kimchi dependency on those
> Ginger Base python modules and then, remove the package dependency.
>
> Let me know your thoughts!
>
> Regards,
> Aline Manera
>
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I agree. After that it will make sense move GingerBase functionality to 
Ginger, keeping only one plugin for host-related tasks.

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Lucio Correia