Andrew Bartlett wrote:
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.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_DesignAny 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 moreeasily 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-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora-directory-devel mailing list Fedora-directory-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-devel
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