[Opendnssec-develop] Choice of scripting language

[Stephen.Morris at nominet.org.uk]

Jelte Jansen <jelte at NLnetLabs.nl> wrote on 28/01/2009 10:40:02:

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> Rickard Bondesson wrote:
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> > * Signer Engine
> > 
> > The individual components of the Signer Engine are available in the 
code
> > repository. They are working and can produce DNSSEC records as 
expected.
> > There still needs something that can tie these components together.
> > 
> 
> 
> for the sake of iterative development of the first version, and since 
specific
> interfaces still need to be fleshed out, i would like to suggest 
> that i make the
> scripts that do that in python (ie. the 'heart' of the engine). The
> processor-intensive operations are of course still performed by the 
> c code that
> make the individual components.
> 
> Do people have problems with that? (this is an open suggestion, with
> my personal
> preference; i really like the easy with which you can tie input/output 
of
> processes together in python)
> 
> Jelte

The choice of scripting language probably isn't too important, but my 
impression is that knowledge of the Bourne shell is more widespread than 
knowledge of python, so the scripts may be understood (and modified?) by a 
wider audience if written in "sh".

Stephen