Hello, On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 00:58:35 +0200 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 23:51:04 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > Cumulus Networks is using Debian as a base and has produced > > "ifupdown2", a "compatible" replacement for ifupdown written in > > Python: > > https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/ifupdown2/tree/master/ifupdown2 > > > > They maintain a state of what is done and apply changes > > incrementally to avoid any disruption. This is quite interesting. > > Has anyone worked with them on that? > > > > I know the main author. May I propose him to package it in Debian? > Hmm, given your wording I'm wondering if the ifupdown maintainer > (CCed) is aware of what seems to be a “plan” (given the project name) > to supercede that package? I first heard of them when they proposed a talk for DebConf, but they have never tried to contact me, which seemed a bit strange to me. What I don't understand about this project is the use of Python here: isn't really suitable for this? I was hesitating to use smaller scripting languages and tried to keep the C code as tiny as possible... And now Python. Do we not care about separate /usr any more? -- Cheers, Andrew
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