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Opa – An open-source, general-purpose policy engine

#1

Post by tosh » Mon, May 21, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

#2

Post by sanxiyn » Mon, May 21, 2018, 8:03 PM UTC

Unfortunate name conflict with http://opalang.org/

#3

Post by zanalyzer » Mon, May 21, 2018, 8:36 PM UTC

sanxiyn wrote: post #2

Unfortunate name conflict with http://opalang.org/

also with every German grandpa

#4

Post by chendal » Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:16 PM UTC

sanxiyn wrote: post #2

Unfortunate name conflict with http://opalang.org/

Also conflicts with Oracle Policy Automation.

#5

Post by ironjunkie » Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:21 PM UTC

sanxiyn wrote: post #2

Unfortunate name conflict with http://opalang.org/

Get used to it. After 40+ years in this industry, every single 2,3 and 4 letter acronyms are already used by Something else.

#6

Post by abiox » Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:29 PM UTC

chendal wrote: post #4

sanxiyn wrote: post #2

Unfortunate name conflict with http://opalang.org/

Also conflicts with Oracle Policy Automation.

yep. for the briefest moment i thought this was oracle's OPA being open-sourced.

#7

Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:33 PM UTC

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#8

Post by scardine » Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:37 PM UTC

If you just want to know what language was used to write this, I can spare you the visit to github: it is go.

#9

Post by monocasa » Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:41 PM UTC

chendal wrote: post #4

sanxiyn wrote: post #2

Unfortunate name conflict with http://opalang.org/

Also conflicts with Oracle Policy Automation.

And the Outer Planets Alliance, lol.

#10

Post by djtriptych » Mon, May 21, 2018, 10:17 PM UTC

zanalyzer wrote: post #3

sanxiyn wrote: post #2

Unfortunate name conflict with http://opalang.org/

also with every German grandpa

Or Dutch.