Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:23:17 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Rewriting sade(8) Message-ID: <hpkhrc$md8$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <86fx36up9e.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <55861270658151@web135.yandex.ru> <l2we277d6c81004071049h21670783ic4a9f419aedca272@mail.gmail.com> <4BBD68DB.7050600@yandex.ru> <201004080727.21020.bruce@cran.org.uk> <4BBD7CDC.2070505@yandex.ru> <20100408103809.13496s9i6ny03ocg@webmail.leidinger.net> <867hoi8gbl.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20100408121500.13995d1eu7b9bt0k@webmail.leidinger.net> <86fx36up9e.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On 04/08/10 14:01, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> writes: >> I think this is more complicated than to refactor the interesting part >> into a backend with an API which both tools can use. This would also >> allow someone to write a GUI program (e.g. for PC-BSD). > > There have been at least three or four attempts to do this in the past. > One of them was even fully funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. They all > failed. Since I was involved in one of them (not the Foundation-funded one, though; who got that? I don't remember seeing an announcement), I'll attempt to share some of my experiences. One experience is that, unless both components (the backend and the front-end) are done, nobody will use either. The second, that it's apparently a given that the backend must be written in C to be imported into base - this is a large obstacle for doing something that, I think, by definition should be scriptable. Apparently noone was/is interested in a Python backend :( Third, I feel that using a RPC-like network protocol - in my case XML-RPC was/is a good idea but it also received too little comments and interest. Fourth, it's bloody hard doing open-source development unless you have external funding.
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