Re: Replacement for traffic_shell

2014-01-27 Thread Leif Hedstrom
On Jan 27, 2014, at 10:27 AM, James Peach wrote: > > 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? A lot of traffic_shell (most?) I don’

Re: Replacement for traffic_shell

2014-01-27 Thread James Peach
On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:37 AM, Leif Hedstrom 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 o

Re: Replacement for traffic_shell

2014-01-27 Thread Leif Hedstrom
The "problem" is that traffic_shell implements the full mgmt APIs in TCL bindings. My replacement only implements the show: commands. > On Jan 27, 2014, at 2:28 AM, Arno Töll wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 25.01.2014 14:37, Leif Hedstrom wrote: >> Thoughts? I’d like to land this for v5.0.0. > > Y

Re: Replacement for traffic_shell

2014-01-27 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 25.01.2014 14:37, Leif Hedstrom wrote: > Thoughts? I’d like to land this for v5.0.0. Yay! Do it! Do it! > > 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 e

Re: Replacement for traffic_shell

2014-01-25 Thread Leif Hedstrom
On Jan 25, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Leif Hedstrom 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 o

Replacement for traffic_shell

2014-01-25 Thread Leif Hedstrom
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