[Fedora-directory-devel] New setup code

[Richard Megginson]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 19:04 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
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>> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:05 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
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>>>> 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
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>>> Any chance of killing ds_newinst while you are at it?
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>>>       
>> Well - what do you have in mind to replace it?
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> 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. 
>   
Yeah, that would be nice.  We'll see what we can do.  But in the 
meantime, the new work we are doing wraps ds_newinst with a much more 
user friendly interface, and ds_newinst can already be used as a CGI.
> I don't have any more plans or thoughts than that. 
>
> Andrew Bartlett
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