Plague documentation?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Oct 18 18:06:25 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 16:56 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 07:57:39AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > There was some confusion about that; but it was actually created as a
> > build system for Fedora Extras specifically, because beehive (the old RH
> > buildsys) was on life-support and had major issues, brew wasn't ready
> > yet, and brew wasn't necessarily appropriate for Extras at the time
> > anyway.
> 
> And a look into the cristal ball (aka your best guess on future
> development)? E.g. what will the future relation of brew and plaque be
> under assumption that some further integration between FC and FE will
> happen. Will one tool surpass the other? Or complement?

Brew does some pretty neat stuff; but it doesn't try to cover a more
distributed use-case.  In the future, I'd like to see a more brew-based
tool into which we add the features we like in plague.

Dan

> Thanks!




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