[Pulp-list] gopher migration

[Jeff Ortel]

On 11/05/2010 03:28 PM, Mike McCune wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 04:07 PM, Jeff Ortel wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> The changes to migrate pulp to use gopher[1] have been pushed to
>> master. For the most
>> part, developers and users will not notice any significant differences.
>>
>> Change Summary:
>> *<git>/src/pulp/messaging package replaced with gopher.messaging
>> *<git>/src/pulp/client/agent package replaced with gopher plugin
>> defined as:
>> -<git>/etc/gopher/plugins/pulp.conf
>> -<git>/src/pulp/client/gopher/pulp.py
>> * Packaging (rpm) changes:
>> - pulp (rpm) requires: gopher-common
>> - pulp-client requires: gopher
>> *<git>/bin/pulpd (removed), replaced by gopherd
>> *<git>/etc/init.d (removed)
>>
>
> question:
>
> Any reason you decided to call the package 'gopher' vs 'python-gopher'?
> Does it go beyond the scope of a python lib and has general
> functionality as a standalone tool?
>

Yes, it's more of a tool than a lib.  It contains a daemon and has configuration.  So, I 
didn't think python-gopher was appropriate.

>