Introducing wicked

[Richard Zidlicky]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:17:48PM +0100, nodata wrote:
> On 25/11/10 17:24, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> >
> > Presenting wicked network configuration
> > =======================================
> >
> > This is the first public release of wicked, an experimental framework
> > for network configuration.
> >
> > You may ask, don't we have enough of those already? Don't we have
> > NetworkManager, connman, netcf, and a few more?

making a list of those is already an achievement :)

> > The point I started from was the desire to unify what is usually provided
> > through the traditional ifup script kudzu, with some of the more desktop
> > oriented services provided by facilities like NetworkManager. I also
> > wanted to move towards a more powerful set of functionality written in
> > C, which is able to subsume functionality provided by ifconfig, ip(8),
> > brctl, vconfig, ethtool, etc, and be able to drive these through an
> > extensible XML representation of the network configuration.
> 
> XML? *cries*
> 
> How about a nice simple file? ;)

seconded. Or JSON if something fancy is desperately needed.

Richard