On Thursday 04 May 2006 08:18, . . wrote:
> having worked with java in the past, it is very unwieldly as a tool and a
> royal pain. i wouldn't recommend that as a development base for this app
> (or any for that matter). probably ANSI or clean C would be my
> recommendation -- along with adequate documentation ;-). at some point this
> code can be integrated directly into the client as a library and invoked
> via command line switch "--check-config" or something. apache httpd has a
> similar command line to validate the syntax of the config file.

Bleh, use something like Tcl/Tk, Python or Ruby.

All are cross platform and much more suited to such a task IMO.

> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Zach <netrek at gmail.com>
> > To: tanner at real-time.com, "Netrek Development Mailing List"
> > <netrek-dev at us.netrek.org> Subject: Re: [netrek-dev] Netrek config
> > utility source code
> > Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:06:20 -0400
> >
> >
> > Java would be ideal language for such a task. You can run the utility
> > as a web app or standalone on the host machine. Will only have minimal
> > effort to run it on a wide variety of platforms.
> >
> > Zach
> >
> > On 5/3/06, Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> wrote:
> > > >>Written in VB and there is plenty of room for improvement if you have
> > > >> the time.
> > >
> > > I do wish it was developed in a language that at least has a shot of
> > > being ported to a different operating system. :-(
> > >
> > > Yes, we can follow the login in VB, but then we have to maintain 2
> > > code-bases, 2 patches, 2 testsuites, 2 installations documents, 2
> > > HOWTOs, etc...
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com>          | Phone : (952)943-8700
> > > http://www.real-time.com, Minnesota, Linux | Fax   : (952)943-8500
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