From: Balbir Singh <balbir-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
To: Paul Menage <menage-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Dhaval Giani
<dhaval-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>,
containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
<vatsa-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>,
Sudhir Kumar
<skumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>,
Peter Zijlstra
<a.p.zijlstra-/NLkJaSkS4VmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] libcg: design and plans
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:57:42 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CE91BE.9050503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6599ad830803050401j2dbbfaa7ycdf0bbfce59539b2-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
Paul Menage wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> libcg will be written mainly in C with lex and yacc for parsing the configuration
>> files.
>>
>
> One suggestion - for configuration management tools like this I'd opt
> for C++ or Python over C, in order to be able to use STL (or the
> python libraries). Object-Orientation may be useful or maybe not, but
> classes like string, vector, hash_map, etc, make life so much easier.
>
> Paul
Object-orientation is not very useful in this case. STIL is useful, if we don't
find equivalent functionality, we might consider using C++ or the C++ compiler
and libraries and export "C" interfaces. But for now, our plan is to use the C
compiler
--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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2008-03-05 4:48 ` [RFC] libcg: design and plans Balbir Singh
2008-03-05 5:26 ` Dhaval Giani
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2008-03-05 11:56 ` Xpl++
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2008-03-05 15:53 ` Dhaval Giani
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2008-03-05 19:36 ` Xpl++
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2008-03-04 17:15 ` Xpl++
2008-03-04 18:05 ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-05 6:15 ` Paul Menage
2008-03-05 12:01 ` Paul Menage
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2008-03-05 12:27 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2008-03-20 22:04 ` Rik van Riel
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2008-03-05 7:17 ` [Devel] " Denis V. Lunev
2008-03-05 10:33 ` Dhaval Giani
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2008-03-05 10:41 ` Paul Menage
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2008-03-05 11:07 ` Dhaval Giani
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2008-03-05 11:51 ` Paul Menage
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2008-03-05 14:24 ` Balbir Singh
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2008-03-05 18:55 ` Paul Menage
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2008-03-05 11:48 ` [Devel] " Balbir Singh
2008-03-04 15:23 Dhaval Giani
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