[Xorp-hackers] OSPF[46]...
Kristian Larsson
kristian at spritelink.net
Fri Jul 25 09:22:00 PDT 2008
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 kll at spritelink.net
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