On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 20:33:16 -0400 "Michael H. Warfield" <m...@wittsend.com> wrote:
> With all due respect... > > On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 16:08 -0700, Tony Su wrote: > > After putting some thought into this, > > IMO LXC badly needs a universal tool with the following features > > > > - A single script should be used to run on <any> HostOS, creating > > <any> supported Container OS. Although this would make the script > > extremely large, IMO it would actually be easier to maintain in the > > long run. > > Actually, no. From my experience (30+ years in software development), > it would turn into a morass. > > The problem here is that the maintainer(s) would then need to understand > how each and every distribution is installed and how it would be > installed on each and every distribution. It would distill the worse of > all the problems we have now in the templates into one great big dung > pile. It would rapidly become unmaintainable. The "extremely large" is > the red letter warning that it will become unmaintainable as fewer and > fewer people understand what this great big huge blob does. I tend to agree with this. What I do think could be done is to use template APIs. Either by having a script "library" with helper functions (for things like: generate_mac_address etc) or let the template scripts be "plugins" that must provide a set of pre-defined functions (eg. install_distro, configure_distro, copy_configuration etc) or maybe a combination of those two. -nc
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