[Pulp-dev] Replace pulp_template repo with cookiecutter template

[Daniel Alley]

Cookiecutter looks really nice and I'm not opposed to switching, but I
don't expect we would save much maintenance work in doing so. We aren't
doing / haven't needed to do too much maintenance on boostrap.py that I'm
aware of, it seems like it's relatively complete and tested.  Most of the
maintenance work is on the template itself.

Also in my brief lookthrough of the docs and some of the examples, I didn't
see anything about doing case substitutions like we're doing (e.g. creating
names RpmContent, RPM_CONTENT_PATH, pulp_rpm.app... from just "rpm").  Our
template is much bigger than any of the examples I looked at and it kind of
feels like it's focused towards a totally separate use case (filling out
many different small variables instead of the same one in many different
contexts).

I don't know, I feel like this is an "if it isn't broke" situation.



On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Dana Walker <dawalker at redhat.com> wrote:

> Cookiecutter certainly looks very thorough, an active community, BSD
> license.  I'm fairly unfamiliar with our existing plugin_template for
> Pulp.  I suspect we would gain hours by not having to maintain as much for
> the template ourselves since our repo is fairly active.  Is there anything
> we would lose through this approach?
>
> --Dana
>
>
> Dana Walker
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> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A plugin writer suggested we do this, and I agree with them:
>>
>> https://pulp.plan.io/issues/4082
>>
>> Please comment on if this is a good idea or not.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Brian
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