Jimmy Hess <[email protected]> > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Scott Weeks <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > --- [email protected] wrote: > > From: [email protected] > > > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:43:35 +0200, Niels Bakker said: > > > Fine as a personal exercise, of course. The inability to download > > > modules seems sadistic to me, though. > > > > Yeah... just download RANCID and check the command line options. > Expect is mainly of historical interest, and the code already exists in > several forms, so no need to completely re-invent the wheel (as a square) > here.
In a follow up he stated that wasn't allowed either. > I call shenanigans about the avoidance of Perl modules. No real-world > system > has such constraints. As someone who administers systems with such constraints, allow me to say that you are incorrect in your assertion. > Besides, Expect itself is a module / extension of the Tcl language and > requires the > use of dynamically-loaded extension libraries for pattern matching and > various functions, > so using Expect would break the "No modules rule". "No PERL modules" != "no dynamically linked binaries" Jamie
