On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 21:42 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:53:09AM -0800, David Lutterkort wrote: > > > and of course the concern I issued before is that it ties us into yet > > > another scripting language for systems-maintenance tasks. > > > > What exactly is that saying to people who use the ruby that we ship in > > Fedora ? I understand that there is some concern that another language > > might cause upgrade problems > > No, that's not the issue Seth addresses (I think), and also no > attribute against the quality of ruby as language and > implementation. > > The question is more like what language are the current and future > maintainers of the fedora infrastructure comfortable with and would be > able to do some bug hunting, fixing, changes if required. And of > course any python solution will have a small bonus here. That is understandable (though a little different from the reasons given a few days ago here) - I hope that phear of ruby won't keep people from having a look at puppet and comparing its features to bcfg2. David
