[Opendnssec-develop] Choice of scripting language

[Jelte Jansen]

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Stephen.Morris at nominet.org.uk wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 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".
> 

technically, sh != bash, except on linux ;)

however, as i had envisioned it, it would do quite a bit more than just call the
signer and query the kasp; it would also listen (or query for) changing
directives from the kasp, and schedule the automatic resigning operations.

Jelte
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