On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:46, Paul Gear wrote: > Tom Eastep wrote: <snip> > > I have begun some experimentation with rewriting the compiler in Perl and > > that is looking promising. Converting to Perl will unfortunately present > > migration/compatibility issues with compile-time extension scripts although > > I've been able to retain shorewall.conf and /etc/shorewall/params > > functionality for the most part. > > You know my feelings about perl - it is so much better a language for > string processing than shell. I think it would cut your code size > substantially, and thus result in much more maintainable and bug-free > code, as long as you don't write it like a typical perl programmer > (which i already know you aren't ;-).
Paul, What is your opinion of microperl? Would in suffice for the proposed rewrite? -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, sitedocs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
