Comment 14 for bug 1331214

On 24/06/14 02:04, Raphaël Badin wrote:
> Even though wsman looks like a better alternative than amttool, I'm a
> bit concerned to make MAAS rely on a bunch of packages (libwsman-client2
> libwsman-curl-client-transport1 libwsman1 wsmancli) that are all in
> universe. Can we first get a member of the server team to evaluate if
> it's doable to have them in main first?
>
> Note that amttool is also in universe to it wouldn't be that much of a
> regression to use something else also in universe… that being said, the
> good thing the amtterm had going for it is that is was a standalone
> package. We even toyed with the idea of rewritting it in Python an
> include it in MAAS.
>

Right, a Python re-write would be preferable here. We're only using a
*fraction* of the functionality right now, so the new code should be
very straightforward indeed.