Re: Clients written in Guile.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

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   On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 08:44, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

   >    Did you have good reasons why we should consider it?

   > I don't have any good reasons whatsoever, this was mostly an general
   > inquiry.  One reason might be that the clients might get easier to
   > maintain, or that messing with packets is easier in Guile (I haven't
   > explored this either of the reasons very far).  Many maybes... Will
   > probably have to implement an client in both C and Guile with similar
   > functionality and see for my self.

   The only case where we should be messing with packets directly is ping,
   and I definitely want libicmp to stay a C library.  There's a little bit
   in FTP with setting up data channels, but even that is just analysing
   data on the stream.

I was talking about clients like a DHCP client, where one has to send
some stuff, recive a bunch of other stuff etc...