Paul Menage wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers