I think it is possible to generalize the interfaces so that both things are possible. "Horses for courses" as they say (apparently). M
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:14 +1000, Tim Nelson wrote: > Mark, I've had an idea for the "editfiles" thing. What would you > think of an editfiles that works like SQL for text files? There'd be more > actions than just INSERT, UPDATE, and SELECT, so I'd suggest putting the > actions last, but you could do (on /etc/xinetd.d/amanda): > > ------------------------------------- > WHERE > CurrentBlock = "service amanda" > AND Field(0) = "disable" > DO > Field(1) = yes > ------------------------------------- > > I'd envisage this being a separate language to cfengine, but also > having a way to embed it in the cfengine code as suggested by the "Action > Templating" section of Templating ideas: > http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Templating_Ideas > The above would also mean that editfiles and cfengine could develop > independently, using one job per tool, as per the Unix philosophy. > > The above would be pretty convergent, I'd hope. Obviously not > until cfengine 3.0, though :). Yes, there are problems with the above > approach, but I think it would help us to think convergently about things. > > What do you think? > > :) > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
