[chef] Re: Re: Re: Ohai 0.6.12.rc.1 released

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Erik Hollensbe
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> I know I'm late to the party, but I have some code that solves this problem
> in C. Would you find it useful?

OHAI-92 [1] considers doing this very thing using sigar. I wouldn't
want to put C in Ohai itself when we have alternatives, because we
save ourselves the complexity of building extensions and doing so on
multiple platforms. There was not enough energy at the time to cover
all the use cases to justify a switch of framework though.

Requiring a development environment to install a library dependency
was a little painful, particularly on Windows when we started using
YAJL. The Omnibus client really resolves that issue for those who
simply want to use Chef rather than hack on and develop it.

Bryan

[1] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/OHAI-92