[Devel] Re: [RFC] libcg: design and plans

[Balbir Singh]

Paul Menage wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval at linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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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