On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Scott Henson <shenson@redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:00:26 -0600, <marek.dohojda@thomsonreuters.com> wrote:
> Actually yes I still am running EL4.
> Out of curiosity what do you find is a problem with Cheetah?
>

Cheetah recently broke on F14 and has had various and other problems
with its security.  It has generally just been a pain in my back side
for some time.  I'm not saying I'm going to make a change, just trying
to get a general feeling on the subject at this place.



Support for EL4 should be maintained until EL4 is EOL. It's only got <2 years left. I believe it's EOL in 2012.

As for templating, I agree that there needs to be specific reasons for the change. The "various and other" problems should be detailed. It's possible that there are less drastic solutions to those problems.

I'm not personally invested too heavily in Cheetah. I like Genshi for a number of reasons, but would be open to adapting to other options. I'm not opposed to learning something new. :-) There's been a few blog posts going around Planet Python in the last month about good and bad uses of templating engines. 

With cobbler-web having moved to Django for cobbler 2.0 (IIRC), it sort of makes sense to move the rest of the app in that direction as well. However, if this happens, I think it should incur another big version bump to 2.5 or 3.0, so that it's clear that this isn't just a minor update.

---Brett.