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. I don't have any more plans or thoughts than that. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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