Ruby parser for kickstart files

[Bryan Kearney]

On 08/21/2009 11:41 AM, Chris Lumens wrote:
>> There's /nothing/ wrong with using another web development platform if
>> you like it better.
>>
>> Fedora should not have any language preferences.
>>
>> Despite being a Python fan, having been on the wrong side of language
>> wars before, I won't support them, and they are wrong for lots of
>> reasons.
>
> It's just a weird inconsistency when we already have so much code
> written (including libraries anyone can make use of) in Python.  It just
> seems like it'd be the quickest and easiest way to go.
>
> Not that I have any particular love for Python...
>
>> Fortunately though, there's absolutely no reason something building
>> kickstarts /needs/ pykickstart.
>
> This only really works as long as you are generating simple kickstart
> files.  If you are generating complicated ones, you will have to be
> careful to make sure your file is recognized as valid input by anaconda.
> Using pykickstart already gives you that guarantee, as its output is
> also valid input - if not, that's my bug, not yours.
>
>> In the case of pykickstart, this is nice, because pykickstart running on
>> EL 4 can't create a Fedora 11 compatible kickstart anyway.... it doesn't
>> know about the new tags.
>>
>> With a templating system, you could run your kickstart generator on any
>> platform, and it wouldn't matter what version of pykickstart you had.
>
> If you've got the 1.x series of pykickstart installed, it's got the
> multiple version support that should allow you to generate kickstart
> files for whatever version you want.  Of course, you may need a fancier
> version of python installed that RHEL4 supports.
>
> - Chris
>


I would be cool to parse the python language into Ruby at runtime. That 
way one can choose to have them interoperate.

-- bk