Tentakel Releases

Releases that were made so far:

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• Tentakel 2.1 (January 10, 2004)
  release notes

  This release introduces a slightly different syntax for the configuration file.
  Now all parameters can be set globally or local to the group. See the
  changelog for details. It's now possible to specify a path to the ssh binary.

  Changes:
  - change project homepage
  - config file can now contain set var="value" directives that set global parameters
  - all global parameters can appear in group specs as well
  - the value part of those parameters have to be enclosed in double quotes
  - group parameters overrule global parameters
  - additional global/group parameter ssh_path, which contains the path to the ssh binary to be used

• Tentakel 2.1.1 (January 10, 2004)
  release notes

  2.2.1 is basically a maintenance release that fixes some bugs and introduces basic unit regression testing.

  Changes:
  - fix bug that prevented use of # characters in parameters
  - remove hardcoded -x from ssh commandline
  - introduce basic unit regression testing

• Tentakel 2.0 (January 01, 2004)
  release notes

  The idea of the first few tentakel versions was to make it as compatible as
  possible across different Unix-like operation systems. Thus it was first
  implemented in pure Bourne shell code (with some reasonable extensions).

  We found that writing code that runs under all shells that claim to be Bourne
  compatible simply does not work either because these claims are not true
  or because it would mean to write code that would become a real mess
  pretty soon.

  This tentakel version (2.0) has been written in Python. The code is clearer
  now and much more readable. Python directly supports object oriented
  programming which we had to "emulate" in the shell version. The availability
  of good working modules we now have at our disposal has led to a richer
  set of features and a useful configuration file.

  Changes:
  - MUCH more functionality
  - rewrite in python
  - multi-threading features of python
  - output can be formatted with a format string
  - drop hostlists in favour of a more powerful configuration file
  - private config file can override global config file
  - interactive mode
  - much improved manual page
  - much improved installation information

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