[Linux-HA] 32 / 64 Bit

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Andreas Mock wrote:

>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: linux-ha-bounces at lists.linux-ha.org
>> [mailto:linux-ha-bounces at lists.linux-ha.org] Im Auftrag von
>> Andrew Beekhof
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008 08:49
>> An: General Linux-HA mailing list
>> Betreff: Re: [Linux-HA] 32 / 64 Bit
>>>
>>> I wrote it wrong: shebang
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
>>
>> ah, Hashbang i'd have understood :-)
>
> As always, many words for the same thing.  :-)
>
>>
>>>>> 5) Where do I have to document other dependencies, e.g. certain
>>>>> interpreter?
>>>>
>>>> me no comprehendo
>>>
>>> Sorry, my English.
>>> If I write a RA in e.g. python, than python has to be installed
>>> additionally to RA itself. I don't pack the RA into the RA-package,
>>> but the packager has to know about this dependency.
>>>
>>> So, I tried to ask where to document this dependency if I'm only the
>>> RA developer but not a rpm/deb packager. That's all.  :-))
>>
>> Personally I don't think we should be automatically installing
>> language X just because an RA is written in that language.
>
> Yes of course. I agree. Therefore it was a question of documentation.

We have a script that generates man pages from the RA metadata (Dejan  
is working on making it usable outside of SUSE)...
Maybe we just need to agree on some sort of "standard" attribute to  
set that the script can check and use to indicate the required language.

>
>
>> We include all sorts of wonderful RAs including postgres, db2 and
>> mysql but clearly we shouldn't be installing 3 different databases
>> just because we have an RA for them.
>
> obviously.  :-)
>
>
> Have a nice day
> Andreas Mock
>
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