Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

James Turnbull
2010-02-24T15:56:17Z

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On 24/02/10 3:00 AM, Michael Gliwinski wrote:
> I see your point, but this is perhaps specific to the domain of
configuration
> management systems?  I mean just look at some of the largest free software
> communities like KDE, which is primarily written in C++ which
doesn''t seem to
> be in any way diminishing the number of contributors.
>
>

I suspect it''s the domain of sysadmins with problems to solve - who
make a significant portion of Puppet''s user base.  I have found most
sysadmins cut code in higher level languages - Perl, Python, Ruby
rather than C/C++.

To get good buy in from them then it''s going to be hard if you write
the tool in a lower level language.  I look at the pool of cfengine
and Nagios developers versus the pool of users as a (perhaps valid?)
example.

Regards

James Turnbull

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