[Raymond-announce] Raymond 2.0 alpha

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

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Raymond 2.0 is a total ground-up rewrite.  The scripting API is now
object-oriented and is simplified immeasurably relative to 1.0.  
Equally important is that the code should now be fairly comprehensible
to maintainers other than myself.

With the release of 2.0_alpha_2003-09-14, all major functions have been
reimplemented, and have survived a preliminary black-box test suite.  
This suite, bin/raymond.pl, is included for your perusal.  Naturally,
the test suite is specific to my hosts and filesystem, so it will
require quite a bit of modification of its localized data to work in
anyone's environment except mine.  It does, however, serve as a dirty
example of the use of Raymond's new API.

The whole package now works with taint mode enabled.  Documentation is
being updated; at this writing, the object API is documented, but
extensibility features are not.  At this moment, DHCP support is still
missing.  Name resolution is now modular and pluggable, but I haven't
done the module for DHCP yet.  There is also not yet a reimplementation
of the Tk interface; that will happen later this fall, though frankly,
it's not as desperately needed in 2.0 due to the much friendlier
scripting API.

This release is a significant milestone, and is robust enough that I'm
comfortable requesting initial feedback.  

Have fun .... -d

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David Talkington

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