[rancid] Re: RANCID, the next generation?

[Lance]

Ed,

Great news. I will have to see how it works. I will download it tomorrow
and check it out. Are you going to start a different mailing list etc?

-Lance

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [rancid]  RANCID, the next generation?
> From: Ed Ravin <eravin at panix.com>
> Date: Sun, April 01, 2007 7:43 pm
> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> 
> Dear RANCID gang:
> 
> I'd like to announce that thanks to my public-sprited employer and
> a sacrifice of much of my spare time, I've been able to put RANCID
> through a complete rewrite.
> 
> The new version supports all of the previous RANCID devices, as
> well as many new ones, and everything has been rewritten to be
> modular, to use shared script libraries, with re-entrancy,
> multi-threading, and a new, well-organized model that allows
> for easy extension and customization.
> 
> User-controlled configuration now extends to device definitions,
> connection method definitions, the commands to run on a router, and
> what to do with each section of the router's config file (sorting,
> censoring out passwords, etc.).  It's so user-configurable that I've
> been able to implement nearly every patch and feature request discussed
> on this list in the past three years using just the new configuration
> settings.
> 
> I would have announced it earlier this month, but I had trouble
> coming up with a new acronym.  How do you follow an act like RANCID,
> a mature, reliable, high quality, full featured software package with
> a catchy and appealing name that's also an unbeatable acronym?
> 
> So please welcome PUTRID - the Perl/Unix/TCL Router Information
> Database.  It's not any better than RANCID -- but it is stronger,
> even more mature (more ripe?), and ranks up there with the best of them
> in the spirit of open-sourced projects.
> 
> As of midnight April 1, downloads are available now from putrid.sf.net,
> and the CVS repository will be set up shortly.  Thanks again to everyone
> on this list who've been using RANCID and gave me the inspiration
> to see this project to its current state.
> 
>         -- Ed
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