A few of you have expressed concern about my bluntness in discussing cfengine's limitations. I apologise to Mark and the list for this; they deserve better from me.
I am in awe of Mark and cfengine and do not mean to detract from either cfengine or its author. I know that it represents the easiest tool to use that is currently available for managing networks. This is why I stopped developing my own tools and study it instead; to figure out how to make the 'best thing so far' even better. I have replaced the talk slides mentioned previously with what I hope is a more equitable description of the limitations that I am trying to address. Please try not to take these limitations as destructive criticism; they are in fact issues outside the declared scope of cfengine and may need to be addressed from outside of the framework that it provides, through practice or external tools. -- Dr. Alva L. Couch Associate Professor of Computer Science Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tufts University, 161 College Avenue, Medford, MA 02155 Phone: +1 (617) 627-3674 Web: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~couch _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
