Config stuff and glump (as my introduction)

[David Douthitt]

Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> I do hate cfengine (probably party due to the way it's set
> up here), and I do not consider puppet to be a good alternative,
> mostly because it's "yet another config language" and because it's
> written in ruby.
Well.... I personally think that puppet being written in Ruby is a plus :-P

However, puppet itself is not Ruby; it is only developed in Ruby.  Ruby 
is also used extensively for the FreeBSD portsupgrade tool and for Ruby 
on Rails.  I suspect its more widely used than most realize, and if I'm 
not mistaken, Ruby is included in one or more of the standard Red Hat 
installs.

I must admit that the creation of my first customized Red Hat 
installation CDROMs was largely done to include Ruby v1.4....