Hi Daniel, Daniel Dehennin wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> writes: > >> To store anything in LDAP, you'd need to create a proper .schema for WPKG >> entries. Which would be one more thing to learn. > > Yes, I know, I'm quite confident with LDAP ;-). The only things I > don't know is about JScript as my preferred language is Perl ;-) Then I have another idea which might work. Why not writing a perl tool which is querying LDAP and creating hosts.xml? Currently WPKG already supports reading the XML files from a web URL. Right, at the moment it's not supporting a mixed setup - but this might be changed easily (I even thought about it). I am proposing this as the interface within WPKG to read files from a web service is very flexible. Instead of having WPKG supporting every possible system in the world which _could_ theoretically support storing of WPKG definitions it might be easier to write a web-service for each of this systems. Such a Perl server (or CGI script for Apache...) could be added to the tools for everybody who likes to use LDAP. I also see that introducing LDAP to WPKG brings not only more complexity but also more effort for support. People will ask for it how to use it - even if they are not using it finally. Having a separate add-on which is able to generate the XML files to be fetched by WPKG is entirely fine and flexible. So I would be happy if you could write such an implementation rather than having to increase the complexity of WPKG. I can then propose an enhancement so that the location for all files can be specified independently. I think this way we are much more flexible - and probably it even encourages other people to write different services (for MySQL like WPKG_WEB, for binary storage, active directory lookup or any other system). The interface would always be the same: The service creates valid WPKG XML files to be fetched via HTTP protocol. Let's have WPKG concentrate on the job it was designed for: Software deployment. And not having WPKG extended to an operating system... br, Rainer |