Mark plans to ship a release on Friday. Sanjeev has told me that from a user-centric point of view NTS is pretty much wrapped up - working, documented, interoperable.
This brings the question of what our next big technical push is going to be. I don't consider this my decision to make. Mark is our product stratregist, and I'd like to see a consensus among our senior devs before we commt to a direction. That said, I know what *I* want to do next. Move the whole suite to Go. I mean everything - the Python and the C. Several consideratiuons recommend this to me. * 9 of the 20 bugs presently on our tracker are artifacts of C and a C-centric buld system. They'd a;ll just go away in a Go port. * No more buffer-overun vulns. Ever. * Being able to thow out all the manual memory allocation stuff, and the plstform-dependent cruft in the packet plumbing, would be good for another subtantial decrease in LOC. * Moving to Go would make anything else we want to do easier, so it makes sense to do that first. I'd like to see two different kinds of responses to this provocation. 1. Are there blockers on the road to Go? 2. No, there's something else more important to do first. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length' at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. [...] The Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. -- Majority Supreme Court opinion in "U.S. vs. Miller" (1939) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel