Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 19:04 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
>
>> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:05 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> We've decided to scrap the setuputil code because it's just too
old and
>>>> crufty to maintain. We are going to replace the existing functionality
>>>> with perl scripts (yes, you perl haters out there, not my first choice
>>>> either, but modern versions of perl are readily available on all of the
>>>> platforms we plan to support). The upside is that the setup code will
>>>> be considerably simpler and easier to change/maintain. You can find the
>>>> details here -
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/New_Setup_Design
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Any chance of killing ds_newinst while you are at it?
>>>
>>>
>> Well - what do you have in mind to replace it?
>>
>
> It just seemed that the C code in create_instance.c desperately wanted
> to be rewritten in a scripting language, perhaps with something more
> easily adapted to being both a web app and a command-line binary.
>
Yeah, that would be nice. We'll see what we can do. But in the
meantime, the new work we are doing wraps ds_newinst with a much more
user friendly interface, and ds_newinst can already be used as a CGI.
The most important thing to me - kill required .inf files in favor of
commandline options. Those .inf files make scripting the setup a pain -
especially since they want unencrypted passwords.
Karl