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Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such
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Tim Nelson |
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Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such |
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Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:15:59 +1000 (EST) |
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, David Scott Coburn wrote:
Christopher Browne wrote:
The "do something equivalent to assignment" is one of the "holy grail"
sorts of things for some future release.
If this is so why has it not appeared yet?
Because the current 2.1.x is focussing on bugfixing now. I'm
under the impression that plans are in the making for version 3.0
(although I'm always interested in status updates, Mark :) ). My
suggestion (as anyone who examines the wiki can see) is to split editfiles
off into a separate language, and then use Action Templating to allow
people to embed any language they want in cfengine, whether Perl,
editfiles, or something else.
(Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate the complexities of programming,
and certainly the value of the time people donate to open source projects.)
It seems there are several camps here:
...all of which are represented on the Wiki page "Editfiles" :).
1) Those who just want this (seamingly) simple and basic capability.
Part of the problem is that some people who ask for this assume
that cfengine knows something about the file structure. It doesn't, apart
from ReplaceLinesMatchingField. I presume Mark would accept patches.
2) Those who want this capability but want it to be much more capable
or robust or customizable or some such (ie those who want a programming
language embedded in cfengine).
This would be me.
3) Those who are willing to do the extra work of adding another layer
of programming to their cfengine system (ie m4, perl, etc).
This would also be me, at least at the moment.
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- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, (continued)
- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, Ed Brown, 2005/10/27
- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, Brendan Strejcek, 2005/10/27
- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, Ed Brown, 2005/10/27
- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, Ed Brown, 2005/10/27
- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, Alexander Jolk, 2005/10/28
- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, Chip Seraphine, 2005/10/27
- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such,
Tim Nelson <=
- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, Mark Burgess, 2005/10/28
- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, Josh Lothian, 2005/10/28
- Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, Mark Burgess, 2005/10/28
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Message not availableRe: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, Christopher Browne, 2005/10/27
RE: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such, David Masterson, 2005/10/28