On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 19:35 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote: > 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 -- Fedora-directory-devel mailing list Fedora-directory-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-devel
