Luke, >From the looks of things, this is quite relevant to the Puppet-related work we're doing at Cloudsmith (see Henrik Lindberg's recent post to the users group). We'd definitely like to help out, especially on the Java front (most of our work is currently in Java). We've started working with the BNF definition and will report back as soon as we have something interesting to share.
Cheers, Kenn On Dec 2, 1:18 am, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Some have already noticed this, but I've begun a project to define and > produce a minimal data-focused subset of Puppet's language, just like JSON is > a data-focused subset of Javascript. I had initially called it MPF (for > Minimal Puppet Format), but we've decided to use our internal name for it - > p(0), or pzero: > > https://github.com/lak/pzero > > The only thing there so far is Jordan Sissel's work getting a Ragel parser to > work, along with my attempt at a BNF definition. My hope is to have > implementations in many languages: > > * Ruby > * Python > * C > * Javascript > * Java > > And I'd like each of these to be able to both parse and generate the format. > > Jesse Wolfe first came up with this idea, and our goal is to have a language > that any project or tool can use to describe desired system state. I'm > especially interested in having tools for converting to and from existing > data formats, like the rpm and dpkg manifest formats. > > So anyway, if this is interesting to you, I'd love help on it. We're still > in the formative stages of what it is and what it would do, but we're pretty > excited by the potential. One of the things we clearly need to develop is a > list of example files that each implementation could test against. > > -- > Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the > money to do it right. -- Kurt Herbert Alder > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Luke Kanies -|- http://puppetlabs.com -|- +1(615)594-8199 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
