Re: Use of editfile to support templated configuration files

[Tim Nelson]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:

> This one time, at band camp, wbmccarty@gmail.com wrote:
> > Each managed service must have several related cfengine script lines,
> > which occur in various sections, such as shellcommands and processes.
> > And, each stanza of script lines consists of perhaps half a dozen or
> > more lines. If you want to manage several dozen services, this entails
> > quite a few lines of cfengine script code. I prefer concise code, where
> > possible. So, I'm working on a way to automatically generate the
> > necessary cfengine script lines.
>
> Ok, you twisted my arm; everything you wrote is pretty much the same reason
> I came up with my macros.
>
> http://anchor.net.au/~jaq/cfm4.tar.gz

	Ooh, excitement :).  I'm in the process of putting together my 
Perl templates which cut down on repetition in cfengine code :).  The perl 
is embedded using Text::Template, with <? ?> as the delimiters, so it 
kinda looks like PHP (or Mason, if you're familiar with that), but 
generates cfengine code.  It also allows embedding of pod-style doco in 
the source files, which are extracted and placed in HTML files somewhere.

        :)

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