Re: Clients written in Guile.

[Jeff Bailey]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 08:44, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

>    Did you have good reasons why we should consider it?

> I don't have any good reasons whatsoever, this was mostly an general
> inquiry.  One reason might be that the clients might get easier to
> maintain, or that messing with packets is easier in Guile (I haven't
> explored this either of the reasons very far).  Many maybes... Will
> probably have to implement an client in both C and Guile with similar
> functionality and see for my self.

The only case where we should be messing with packets directly is ping,
and I definitely want libicmp to stay a C library.  There's a little bit
in FTP with setting up data channels, but even that is just analysing
data on the stream.

Now, I could wish for C++'s STL sometimes, but we decided awhile ago
that we weren't going to require C++ at all. =)

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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