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containers / oci-fetch

Simple command line tool for fetching the Open Container Initiative image format over various transports.
Apache License 2.0
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Tool status #4

Open runcom opened 8 years ago

runcom commented 8 years ago

/cc @philips @sgotti @dgonyeo @mrunalp @rhatdan

Hey, following my discussion at https://github.com/containers/oci-fetch/pull/2, I'd like to understand if and how this tool is needed. Right now, what this tool can do is already present in both containers/image and projectatomic/skopeo and I found myself reviewing #2 when skopeo and image already had that functionality. This seems a waste of effort to me. Can we concentrate ourselves in skopeo and containers? skopeo already does what oci-fetch does with skopeo copy docker://fedora oci:fedora-oci-image-layout also. And more important this tool is duplicating the effort in containers/image because there it lives the library to interact with registries and containers' images.

philips commented 8 years ago

@runcom as discussed on the phone last Friday I think we should have the oci-fetch tool as a relaly simple wrapper around the github.com/containers/image library. We can move oci-fetch into the image library but there is value in a "pure" OCI only fetching tool to illustrate the use case and help people test their registries.

runcom commented 8 years ago

@philips yes, I'd love to see this tool refactored to use the already existing API exposed in containers/image to download OCI image layout to avoid duplicating effort.

philips commented 8 years ago

@runcom @dgonyeo has this on his personal TODO list now.