On May 25, 2010, at 09:04 , Nick Silkey wrote:
Maybe Im being obtuse, but isnt ALL cfg mgmt inherently declarative? I know that gets tossed around by the Puppet community as a unique win for it over others in the space.
Ideally yes. (I still think Haskell should be a killer language for CM, if someone (smarter than me, apparently) can figure out how to leverage it.)
That said, we still do editfiles-type stuff here. On research systems it's hard to take complete control of e.g. crontabs without stuffing up someone's Ph.D thesis.
-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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