re: nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
ne? Why is that? Why *was* Nagios forked and re-written in Python? There are too many examples to count. You're missing the point: you've yet to provide any sort of argument whatsoever. It's not automatically true that rewriting Nagios in Tcl would gain the Tcl community more exposure

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Adam Skutt
On Jan 1, 6:21 pm, Robert wrote: > > Really? How many templating systems does Python have? More than one? > Why is that? How many web frameworks does Perl have? More than one? Why > is that? > > Why *was* Nagios forked and re-written in Python? > > There are too many exam

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Robert
On 2011-01-01 10:34:46 -0500, Adam Skutt said: On Saturday, January 1, 2011 10:00:06 AM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: Right, just because you say it paints me in a negative light. Look at every language out there and look within the groups. Everyone is trying to revinvent the wheel to (in their view)

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Robert
frameworks does Perl have? More than one? Why is that? Why *was* Nagios forked and re-written in Python? There are too many examples to count. Your argument is sad to me. At least I've made an argument, whereas you've done nothing of the sort. Just because you take wheel reinvent

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Adam Skutt
On Saturday, January 1, 2011 10:00:06 AM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: > > Right, just because you say it paints me in a negative light. Look at > every language out there and look within the groups. Everyone is trying > to revinvent the wheel to (in their view) make it better. "Everyone" is doing not

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Robert
On 2010-12-31 23:57:24 -0500, Adam Skutt said: On Friday, December 31, 2010 9:56:02 PM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: It was forked to be written in Python, yes. The whole point (and it wasn't a Nagios port to Tcl) was that the Tcl community (and I like the Tcl community a lot) has a strange fix

Re: Nagios

2010-12-31 Thread Adam Skutt
On Friday, December 31, 2010 9:56:02 PM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: > It was forked to be written in Python, yes. The whole point (and it > wasn't a Nagios port to Tcl) was that the Tcl community (and I like the > Tcl community a lot) has a strange fixation with not reinventing the

Re: Nagios

2010-12-31 Thread Robert
unity. They are some good folks. Try asking "I want to build a Nagios clone in Tcl" type question and invariably you get "Why? There is already Nagios?". You're the one who wants to re-write Nagios in Tcl, the Tcl community are perfectly happy using the existing Nagios in

Nagios

2010-12-31 Thread Antoine Pitrou
> > some good folks. Try asking "I want to build a Nagios clone in Tcl" type > > question and invariably you get "Why? There is already Nagios?". > > You're the one who wants to re-write Nagios in Tcl, the Tcl community are > perfectly happy usi

Python and Nagios

2009-01-27 Thread gslindstrom
Hello all- We have started using Nagios at work to monitor our computer system and have been very happy with the results. We have decided to use it monitor our business processes as well, so I needed to write custom plug-ins and I opted to use Python because I am very comfortable with it. I