Re: Python - hard to re-aquire

2021-07-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray : > > > I'm pretty sure this is a problem with the ntpq code, not with Python - > > Python in general has a reputation for being *easy* to read six months > > later, > > which I think is deserved. It's one of the first things I noticed when I > > started coding in Python back in 1998

Python - hard to re-aquire

2021-07-09 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> I'm pretty sure this is a problem with the ntpq code, not with Python - > Python in general has a reputation for being *easy* to read six months later, > which I think is deserved. It's one of the first things I noticed when I > started coding in Python back in 1998 or so. The hard

ntpq version troubles

2021-07-09 Thread Hal Murray via devel
When I start ntpq, I get this message: ntp.ntpc wrong version '1.2.1+17-gbc270426b-dirty 2021-07-09/11:45:21' != '1.2.1' It works OK. That's built with --build-desc=xxx on the configure line to waf on a system using git with some local edits. It works with the same command line on a

Re: Using Go for NTPsec

2021-07-09 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> The valid combinations of $GOOS and $GOARCH are: > freebsd 386 > freebsd amd64 > freebsd arm > netbsd386 > netbsdamd64 > netbsdarm Interesting. No arm64. Here is the Rust page: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html --

Re: Using Go for NTPsec

2021-07-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray : > More topics for this discussion: > > What platforms is the new environment supported on? See my reply to Sanjeev > Gupta's message. > > As far as I can tell, we don't have a list of supported/tested platforms. Is > there an official we page that describes what we support? (I'm

Re: Using Go for NTPsec

2021-07-09 Thread Hal Murray via devel
More topics for this discussion: What platforms is the new environment supported on? See my reply to Sanjeev Gupta's message. As far as I can tell, we don't have a list of supported/tested platforms. Is there an official we page that describes what we support? (I'm expecting something like

Re: Using Go for NTPsec

2021-07-09 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> The issue I have is that each time you add code, or James refactors to fix > bugs, there might be an implicit, untracked, bump in the rustc version > required. Although Fedora may be able to keep up, debian-backports, or > anything but the latest Ubuntu, and certainly Solaris, would remain