On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Lucas Nussbaum
<lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
(Please Cc me on replies, I don't follow -mentors@ very closely).
First question: why do we need yet another parallel command execution
tool? Why is it better than pdsh, dsh, dish, fabric, capistrano,
taktuk+kanif, etc? I'm not arguing that it is not better, but we have so
many of those that it would make sense to elaborate a bit.
Clustershell is a tool like dsh or pdsh but it also provides a python API.
It is used by lustre-shine[1] and it can also be used to script actions on a cluster.
[1] lustre-shine (
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lustre-shine/) is a command
line tool designed to setup and manage the Lustre file system on a cluster.
On 06/06/10 at 23:37 +0200, Stéphan Gorget wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "clustershell".
>
> * Package name : clustershell
> Version : 1.2.83
> Upstream Author : Stephane Thiell <stephane.thiell@cea.fr>
> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/clustershell/
> * License : CeCILL-C
> Programming Lang: Python
>
> It builds these binary packages:
> clustershell - An event-based Python library to execute commands on
> distant cluster nodes
>
> Description: An event-based Python library to execute commands on local
> or distant cluster nodes in parallel depending on the selected
> engine and worker mechanisms.
> .
> The library provides also advanced nodeset handling methods. Its goal
> is to improve the administration of cluster by providing a lightweight
> but scalable API for developers.
> .
> Example : clush -w node[001-256] hostname
> or clush -w node[001-256] apt-get update|clubak -c
That's not how Description: works. first line is supposed to be a 1-line
summary. And I don't think that it's a place for providing documentation
(or examples).
A better description would maybe be :
Description : Distributed shell that provides an efficient python interface
Event-based Python library to execute commands on local or distant
cluster nodes in parallel depending on the selected engine and
worker mechanisms.
.
The library provides also advanced nodeset handling methods. Its goal
is to improve the administration of cluster by providing a lightweight
but scalable API for developers.
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