Michael DeHaan wrote: > Now that Daryl Pierce has written rubygem-cobbler* for making Cobbler's > XMLRPC API even easier to use for webapps, and I have already mentioned > WebUI improvements are going to be a major focus of the next release, I > am pondering /potentially/ making a future iteration of Cobbler Web use > Rails. This seems easier to me in many ways that adding some new > capabilities into the existing web app. > > The downside to this is there is no Rails in EL 4, but it is there in EL > 5 (Rails 2.0.2 is in EPEL 5). This would mean if you wanted Cobbler > Web, you'd have to install the Web app on a EL 5 or later server, but > cobbler could stay on an EL 4 server. This would also mean you would > have the option of installing Cobbler on a seperate box from > cobbler-web, which is now /not/ supported easily by the RPM. > > For those concerned about setup, this would /not/ require a database as > it would be using Cobbler for the model. (* = Daryl should be sending > an email about this shortly, and we're going to put some Wiki examples > up). Also this would move CobblerWeb to a seperately installable > package, such as cobbler-web, reducing Cobbler dependencies for those > that do not need the web app -- which seems to be goodness. > > Just thinking about it at this point, comments welcome. > > Django/TurboGears are also valid choices, but I figured since we already > have the XMLRPC wrapper module we should use it. > > If we do this, the existing CobblerWeb code would continue to be > included for a couple of releases as a deprecated feature before we > would remove it. > > --Michael > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
Someone pointed out to me that if I had concerns about TurboGears stability I should look at Django again. Anyhow, it is worth nothing that Django supports EL4, which is a win. Still to be explored... --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
