> From: Garrett Holmstrom <[email protected]>
> To: cobbler development list <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sat, November 14, 2009 7:38:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Logging and cli error patches for master
>
> From: "Jeff Schroeder"
> Date: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:23 PM
> To: "cobbler development list"
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Logging and cli error patches for master
> > I know that keeping koan small and self contained was very important
> > for Michael when he wrote it. He got it running fine on rhel2.1 to
> > help migrate those installs over to virtual machines.
> >
> > Not that I personally mind, but it would be sad to see that work
> > thrown out for a seemingly innocent patch.
>
> As far as 2.1 goes, the impression I got from Michael from our IRC
> conversations was that the most important thing about koan on 2.1 is that
> the "replace-self" code path works; anything else that works is convenient,
> but not critical. He also briefly explains this near the top of app.py.
>
> Aside: Support for Python 1.5 is one reason Trac #523 existed in the first
> place - modules that are normally unavailable in or incompatible with 1.5.
Actually, not even Python 2.3 has some of these modules.
> It has been some time since I've looked at much of the code, but if koan
> currently uses only a small portion of the code that cobbler uses then I
> could understand avoiding this in the interest of being "small and
> self-contained." I don't see pulling in a tiny dependency as a problem,
> however. On the other hand, one downside is that a machine with both
> cobbler and koan installed will always have to have the same versions of
> each installed since they share a common library (python-libcobbler?). (I
> personally don't mind this.) Alternatively, we could start tracking library
> versions separately and updating cobbler's and koan's rpm requires
> accordingly.
That's an interesting downside, although I wonder how many people want
to run (radically) different versions of cobbler and koan on the same
machine. What I'm thinking of is that it shouldn't be a problem using,
let's say koan 2.0.4 with cobbler 2.0.7 or even koan 2.1 with cobbler 2.2
because the common part doesn't seem to be very complicated.
Regards,
Cristian
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