Am 13.10.2013 um 01:42 schrieb Wes Hardaker <w...@hardakers.net>: > Jens Rehsack <rehs...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I've seen on Neil's page (http://neilb.org/adoption/) that SNMP and Net-SNMP >> are a candidates for adoption. >> Currently I'm busy with other tasks, and if in the meantime someone >> comes around - I would move out of the way. > > So, FYI: I'm heavily involved with (aka started) the Net-SNMP C library > and corresponding SNMP perl module. Net::SNMP, on the other hand, is a > perl module that is entirely implemented in C (unless something has > changed) and is very very different than the SNMP module and Net-SNMP > open source package. > > So... the module on the page above (listed as Net-SNMP) is actually > Net::SNMP and is unrelated to the modules or code for which I'm > responsible. Make sense?
It does and doesn't :P The question is not, are you responsible - the question is, are you reliable. Perl and CPAN have an active community. SNMP hasn't been updated since 2007 and could need a lot of enhancements. Further: SNMP should be a "meta-module" like JSON and switch to Alien::SNMP or Lib::SNMP (in favor), Net::SNMP or any other XS binding or Pure-Perl module … Adopting the module would allow me to do such namespace cleanup, and having created an own SNMP agent and wrote a lot of ASN.1 based communication software (SNMP, SUPL, …) makes me experienced enough to honor previous authors contribution and improve for CPAN. Make sense? Cheers -- Jens Rehsack pkgsrc, Perl5 rehs...@cpan.org
