[Fedora-directory-devel] New setup code

[Andrew Bartlett]

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. 

I don't have any more plans or thoughts than that. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com
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