On Jan 25, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I’ve written a replacement for traffic_shell, entirely in Perl using our Perl > Admin module. This has two benefits: > > 1) It eliminates a huge dependency on TCL (and readline or similar lib), > leaving only the hash TCL code left. > > 2) I feel it makes for a more manageable tool, that we can now improve / work > on more easily. > > > The downside is that we lose the ability to write TCL script using the > traffic_shell interpreter. I honestly don’t feel this being a huge problem, > particularly if we focus efforts on getting the MgmtAPI’s into modern > scripting languages. I should point out that the perl script implements “show:” style commands, I did not implement the “config:” commands. Do people feel that we need the “config:” commands as well? — Leif
