Public bug reported:
Hi,
* this is a wish * :-)
* this is a rather large wish *
Ubuntu comes with plenty of little helper scripts to do this and that
administrative task, to correct things, to deal with the apt/dpkg packages, and
so on.
Those scripts are a wild mixture of technologies, some are shell
scripts, requiring different sorts of shells, some are perl, some are
python, and even others.
Proposal:
Take the currently most modern interpreter language available with
ubuntu, which is ruby, and create a library/toolbox for ubuntu tasks.
Then provide simple comand line and graphical frontends. This would make
all those tasks more consistent and require less disk space (e.g. for
live CDs and USB sticks). It would also allow to easily use those
functions in individual software and scripts. Keep in mind that the ruby
1.8 runtime library is not significantly larger than /bin/bash, but much
more powerfull (although libruby 1.9 is twice as large). However, using
a singular platform for adminstrative tasks make a lot of things much
easier.
Some tools already exist, e.g. there's a ruby interface to the debian
dpkg architecture, but these things are still wild and not really
maintained and put together.
Would be really nice to have an Ubuntu:: namespace in Ruby which does
all that stuff.
regards
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Convert ubuntu helper scripts to ruby library
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350877
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