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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:06:45PM -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 04:53:25PM -0500, Casey Harkins wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > >I wonder if somebody could rewrite cabal from scratch, that's pretty
> > >much the only thing of size untouched.  We could move that into its own
> > >spell, too.
> > 
> > There are actually plenty of tools out there that will essentially 
> > perform 
> > the same function as cabal. Rather than re-inventing the wheel, cabal 
> > could just be pulled entirely and spells created for one or more of the 
> > existing tools.
> > 
> > Google turned up a tool called tentakel. The tentakel website has a list 
> > of similar programs.
> > 
> >     http://tentakel.biskalar.de/similar/
> > 
> > My 1/2 cent...
> 
> Agreed, I don't really consider cabal a package management feature.
> 
> The only reason I'm hesitent is that some people may actually use the 
> thing.
> 
> My machines here are too diverse to have such a tool be useful, which is 
> why I didn't propose removing it outright.  To satisfy all people, I 
> proposed the spell idea.
> 

I totally agree, its not really a package management feature, its a
cluster or IT infrastructure management tool.

Theres a wealth of both free and proprietary stuff for this out there
for this thats far more complete. Cabal is just a glorified wrapper over
running ssh commands on multiple machines.

Its low cost for us to keep it around though, either in sorcery or in a
spell, and if people want to pick it up and run with it then they can. But
I agree, that we should put as little 'official' effort/resources into
it as possible given that there are other, better tools out there for this.

-Andrew

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