On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:41 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Martin Langhoff > <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 13:13 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >>> I agree with the desire to maintain only one tool. However, NM is > >>> extremely desktop oriented, and there seems to include no hint of an > >>> intention to support the complex setups that are possible with the old > >>> ifcfg infra. > >> > >> Really? Most of the work over the past couple of years in NM seems to > >> be aimed at trying to support these cases as opposed to just the > >> "simple" desktop case > > > > That's odd -- I've never seen any of it. Are there good examples of > > how you configure a server to do special stuff with it? Or a > > 'scripting network-manager' guide somewhere? > > A bit of reading of the NM website and published docs makes me think > that Jeremy is probably overoptimistic about the applicability of NM > to server roles, and any intentions of scriptability. > > The design goals don't include scriptability or anything that would > resonate with sysadmins: > http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/design_goals.html > > The page for administrators doesn't provide anything useful > http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/admins/ > > And looking for an API leads me to this page (which is probably > outdated) - a very limited API that won't do any of the things I need > in the School Server. > http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/NetworkManager%20DBUS%20API.txt > > In summary I don't think NM is designed for this. OTOH, it does the > desktop thing well... It goes back to documentation. While the project as a whole is pretty good at code, we're horrible at documentation. We do have D-Bus interface documentation however. The project site desperately needs to updated for NM 0.7. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
