On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:10:45PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Kristian, > > I understand your frustration, but, well, it boils down to the same > thing in any sphere of human endeavour -- those who do things, > invariably end up steering where those things go, and there's no > substitute for rolling one's sleeves up and getting involved.
In any successful company you will find people specialized in their field. Being a programmer means you write code, not necessarily designing a user interface. Anyway, I understand your point although it makes me wonder if the XORP project is at all interested in what its few users have to say about it. > Kristian Larsson wrote: > > The ambition of course being to help XORP into > > world domination. Not being a programmer has > > proven to be somewhat of an obstacle - I've spent > > countless hours going through XORP code and > > eventually just giving up on whatever I had set > > out to do. Coding isn't my ballgame, so what can I > > do to help? > > > > I've been working on a means to build XORP processes (of any kind) in > Python. > > Trouble is, I don't have a lot of free time to work on it, although the > idea is pretty clear -- make it possible for people to script things > more readily in a language which is hopefully more accessible. > > Maybe that will help? Well, I wouldn't want my BGP daemon written in Python, but for a lot of the other stuff, setting hostname, AAA stuff and so forth I sure think XORP could benefit from being able to write stuff in python or some other scripting dialect. I mostly code in Perl, but I'd have no problem taking on Python for the sake of writing some XORP thingy. Regards, Kristian. -- Kristian Larsson KLL-RIPE Network Engineer / Internet Core Tele2 / SWIPnet [AS1257] +46 704 910401 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Xorp-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/xorp-hackers
