apt-class WAS: fai next level

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:22:52 +0100 (MET), Jens Ruehmkorf <ruehmkorf at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE> said:

    > Hm. I really don't see any problems with porting tools written
    > in C to other architectures. And you have small size and speed.

Perl is fast enough ! Most time of FAI is spend in extracting packages
and installing them to the local disk, not running perl or shell
scripts. And the size of ALL scripts in FAI is about 130k. Futhermore,
FAI nfsroot isn't limited is space, since we have a NFS mounted
directory. Perl also gives you an architecture independent interface
to many system functions (localtime, get environment varaiables,
pattern matching using locales, ...). When a task only requires to
call unix commands, I prefer a shell script, otherwise I use Perl.

-- 
 Thomas