On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:37 AM, 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.
This sounds very promising. I'm fine with perl, as long as it is written cleanly and carefully :) > 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 do want to echo Nick's thoughts about the purpose of traffic_shell though. What's it really for? Does the need for it still exist? Would it make sense to roll its useful parts into traffic_line? J
