Re: Clients written in Guile.

[Jeff Bailey]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 05:36, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

> What do y'all think about clients (DHCP, finger (is someone even
> maintaining GNU finger?), etc) written in Guile [1]?

> A few problems with using Guile would arise, one of them being that
> the user would have to install Guile first, the other one being that
> the program would run slower then its C variant.

I've wanted to avoid moving from C on these utilities for a few reasons:

1) The startup time must not be longer than the total execution time. =)

2) Writing in Guile is generally useful for extensibility, and I can't
foresee how someone would want to extend finger, etc, in a way that
shouldn't just be incorporated upstream.

Also, as you mentioned, requiring guile to be installed makes inetutils
unattractive for things like recovery disks.

Did you have good reasons why we should consider it? =)

Tks,
Jeff Bailey


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