xml2hostconf

[Erik <eri...@ho...>]

Hi,

You have a nice collection of links to infrastructure tools for system
administration at:

http://ark.sourceforge.net/related.html

I would be very glad if you included a link to
http://xml2hostconf.sourceforge.net 

A description could for instance be:

xml2hostconf is a collection of xslt scripts that generate rpm packages,
dhcpd.conf, grub files, kickstart files and html documentation. A system
administrator of a redhat linux network can specify the setup of all the
computers in a single xml file. Each computer will be given its own
"virtual" rpm package. The generated rpm packages might have
dependencies and they might also contain configuration files. 


I did a comparison between xml2hostconf and ark on
http://xml2hostconf.sourceforge.net/links.html

<snip>
Ark provides a framework for collaborative system administration of
multi-platform Unix sites with many dozens of machines. xml2hostconf
just delivers host configuration files to the clients by means of
generated rpm packages. Ark on the other hand delivers whole packages (
binaries + configuration files ) to the client by means of compilation
from source code. Ark can therefore be used as a layer above many
different unix variants. xml2hostconf is limited to only redhat linux
distributions. Like xml2hostconf do, Ark also uses xml files as
configuration format. xml2hostconf can use its own configuration files
to generate html documentation. I didn't see that feature in Ark. Ark
has a bigger scope and tries to solve more things than xml2hostconf, but
on the other hand seems more complex. It has roughly 7 times as many
lines of source code than xml2hostconf. License: GPL. Programming
language: Python 
</snip>


Do you find it a fair comparison? 
Did I understand Ark correctly?

cheers,
Erik Sjölund