Jens Rehsack <rehs...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
Ah, but it's a lot more tricky than that. Our recommended install path is actually to get the Net-SNMP source and install it, as it installs the perl SNMP module too. And the reason that CPAN is intentionally old is that people have complained (loudly) when the current SNMP module requires the most current Net-SNMP libraries, which *aren't* on their system. And because the .xs file links against specific versions of the Net-SNMP library, they are tightly coupled. So in short, on most systems you should either: 1) install the default perl/SNMP/Net-SNMP bundles that come with the OS 2) build and install everything from the Net-SNMP source tarball that properly aligns the libraries and SNMP module. At one point in the past we always had the SNMP module up to date on CPAN, and we got endless complaints about people doing auto-updates but couldn't for the SNMP module because of the versioning requirements. They *wanted* us to leave the one in CPAN old so that it wouldn't ask them to update. In short: everything is a huge pain and it's not a winable situation. Any option we had would make someone unhappy. > 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 … Maybe so, if we were going to ideally change the world. But there is a huge amount of existing code out there that uses the SNMP perl module and thus unless the APIs were identical, all that existing code would break. So that's likely a non-starter. > 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. You're welcome to contribute patches to the SNMP module through the Net-SNMP tracker if you like. We always welcome new help. It sounds like you're wanting to rewrite an existing module. IE, you're looking for a name space to take and make your own. Why not just create a new module with a new name if you're intending to write something from scratch? -- Wes Hardaker My Pictures: http://capturedonearth.com/ My Thoughts: http://pontifications.hardakers.net/
