[Raymond-announce] The road to 2.0

[David T. <dt...@pr...>]

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Raymond is a platform-independent distributed host manager written in
Perl. It automates information collection and maintenance, creates
relationships, and provides hooks to implement those relationships any
way you see fit.

Raymond 1.0, while serviceable and fairly complete, suffers from a lack
of extensibility. It began as a simple function library and a set of
scripts, and its code now exhibits the scalability limitations of that
structure.  Raymond is currently undergoing a sorely-needed
object-oriented rewrite to make it more easily extensible (and
comprehensible to maintainers).  Expect v.2.0 of the module in early
September, and a new Tk interface shortly thereafter.

Meanwhile, a functional preview, including the original Tk interface, is
still available as Raymond 1.0-beta2.  Users of only the GUI will not
see significant differences between this beta2 and the upcoming v.2.x
GUI. The major changes are under the hood -- a new, much simpler
scripting interface, and a sane framework for extending Raymond.

http://raymond.sourceforge.net

Cheers ... -d

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David Talkington

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