Alterator

Alterator is a system configuration framework.

Architecture

Alterator is layered:

backends

implement system interaction,

frontends

implement UI and configuration logic,

Frontends are implemented in Scheme. Backend/frontend interaction is performed through sockets by the specific Lisp-inspired protocol.

Backends may be written in any language, and there are existing libraries for POSIX shell and Perl for dealing with frontend communication protocol.

Documentation

• Architecture
• Alterator (ru, translated with google translate)

Uses

Alterator is currently used

• in ALT Linux and Sisyphus as a basis for configuration tool,
• in ALT Linux as a basis for Installer.

License

Alterator is licensed under GPLv2 or later.

Source code

• alterator-* git repositories

Communication

• Mailing list devel-conf@lists.altlinux.org