[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Savannah] cfperl want to be a GNU package

[Free Software Foundation]

Please add cfperl (written by Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>) to the GNU
Evaluations list, and acknowledge back to this address when it has been
added.

Please note the following in the entry:

      * bkuhn checked to make sure the maintainers agreed to GNU policy.

      * they originally got in touch with us via registering on savannah,
        requesting us to make it a GNU program.

      * include with the submission report Ted's paragraph below that
        compares cfengine and cfperl.


> Description: The cfperl project aims to implement a
> cfengine-compatible extension language, which will parse cfengine
> configuration files and accept cfperl-specific extensions that for
> several reasons are better implemented in cfperl than in cfengine.
>
> >    * A URL where the source code can be downloaded.
>
> ftp://lifelogs.com/pub/cfperl-1.04.tar.gz


I asked:

> > BTW, you should definitely be in communication with the cfengine
> > maintainer, since cfengine is an official GNU program.  Are you in
> > communication with him?

Ted wrote this about how cfengine and cfperl are related:

> I have contacted him (Mark Burgess), and was not able to find a way to
> do the tasks cfperl will do using the cfengine plugin architecture.
>
> cfengine is great for specific tasks, and cfperl does not attempt to
> replicate its functionality in those areas.  cfperl's aim is to add
> functionality that is better done in Perl or is not interesting to the
> cfengine author, such as improved file editing, user management,
> crontab management, etc.
>
> cfperl is completely independent of cfengine, it only borrows
> cfengine's configuration syntax to avoid inventing a new one.
>
> I have not officially announced cfperl yet to the cfengine mailing
> list, since I'm waiting for your approval of savannah hosting and GNU
> project inclusion.  I should point out that right now, cfperl seems to
> already have been approved and I've been using the savannah CVS server
> to maintain cfperl.  I don't know if that's a fluke in the system, or
> if you didn't know that it was already approved.


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