On Jul 18, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Erich Focht wrote:
I agree with you, but I wanted to use CentOS and SL NOW for testing and
OS_Detect isn't yet used throughout the distro. The patch is very
similar to
what I had to do for systeminstaller (after all Distro.pm has its roots
there), so it was just getting them both on the same level.
I also wanted to try whether CentOS and SL work just out of the box,
i.e. without replacing and recompiling the redhat-release RPM. And I
hope that
this compatibility will survive when switching over to OS_Detect.
Ok. My only point was that it might be more productive to put such
effort into OS_Detect and speed its adoption (is anyone doing anything
to adopt it?) rather than keeping alive the old stuff (i.e., perhaps
your case could be a good reason to just go do the OS_Detect
integration...? I'm guessing it really wouldn't take much work at
all).
Regarding OS_Detect we didn't continue the discussion on eliminating
the need
for executing functions inside it and extend its scope to images,
too...
Sure -- but don't let me be the bottleneck. I already contributed my
$0.02 to that discussion (although I don't think any conclusions were
made). Even as it stands now, OS_Detect -- without the image
extensions -- would be a huge improvement over Distro.pm (etc.). The
image stuff can certainly be added later without disturbing the rest of
the code base. So my point was to integrate it now and then keep
working on it, rather than keeping it all hypothetical.
The vast majority of my time these days is spent doing non-OSCAR things
:-(. Today, for example, I've been making slides. Joy. I'm the guy
who sits on the OSCAR sidelines and tries to contribute his $0.02 when
possible, and keep tabs on the situation for ensuring that the parts
that I wrote in OSCAR don't break (switcher, LAM, etc.). So feel free
to have the OS_Detect conversation without me...
And remember, the OSCAR rule has always been: he who implements, wins.
:-)
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