[augeas-devel] 2009 Lens Fiesta! (inetd.conf edition)

David Lutterkort lutter at redhat.com
Fri Aug 14 01:45:04 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:33 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:00:40PM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:44 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > I surprised even myself at the speed which this lens was produced -- it
> > > worked fine pretty much straight off the bat, too.
> > 
> > Who ever said writing lenses was hard ? ;)
> 
> Probably me, before I got my head around the syntax.  It really is
> mind-meltingly weird.  I can't see how you'd do something this powerful any
> other way, but I can't fault people who look at lenses and say "you know
> what, I think I've got to go feed my cat".

That explains all those fat cats.

> > > Parses inetd.conf for awesome happiness.
> > 
> > Same question as about the syslinux lens: are you willing to relicense
> > under the LGPLv2+ to avoid headaches for some distributors who get
> > scared when they see GPLv2 files in a supposedly LGPLv2+ library.
> 
> Yep, that's OK, despite my derision at people incapable of comprehending
> simple licences.  If Microsoft can handle the GPL, I think everyone else
> needs to get over themselves.  <grin>
> 
> Relicenced version attached.

Much obliged - thanks for relicensing.

The get test in test_inetd.aug though is commented out, and when I try
to run it, it chokes on the '*:' line ... any idea what happened ?

David





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