Cfengine 3 is young but I think that with a strong community, over time the COPBL will develop into something like what you're describing (or something more grassroots could emerge, much like CPAN did).
As for the language, it's different because it's not a programming language but a platform-independent state definition language, basically, and to the best of my knowledge (which is patchy atm) there isn't much else out there for describing Unix system configurations. It's not an easy thing to do. -----Original Message----- From: help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org [mailto:help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 3:50 PM To: help-cfengine@cfengine.org Subject: Re: Directory permissions, and multiple body bundles. On 2/9/2010 4:23 PM, Justin Lloyd wrote: > > In a small team of admins, like mine, everyone will need to become a > Cfengine admin and getting people accustomed to a particular model of > system administration may find the transition to the Cfengine way of > thinking could be a challenge. As someone just starting to look at cfengine, I really have to wonder why it has a language unlike anything else and if it is worth learning to write something that no one else will understand. It would go a long way toward convincing me if there were something like perl's CPAN library of code where someone else has already done pretty much anything you might want, and I could see how you were supposed to integrate different components, but so far I'm missing the big picture. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine This electronic communication and any attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information of DigitalGlobe, Inc. If you are not the intended recipient, or an agent or employee responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, or if you have received this communication in error, please do not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate or otherwise use the information. Please indicate to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and delete the copy you received. DigitalGlobe reserves the right to monitor any electronic communication sent or received by its employees, agents or representatives. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
