Re: Tcl/TK + Ada

["Thomas Løcke" <thomas@12boo.net>]

On 09/18/2012 01:56 PM, Patrick wrote:
> This is probably just a continuation of the recent Ada GTK vs QTbinding thread but I didn't want to take a chance of thread-jacking.
>
> So I am working on a daemon that will be written in Ada and controlled by a slew of small simple commands. I am planning on controlling it through a Tcl/Tk GUI. I am wondering if this is a good design decision? Has anyone done somethign like this?
>
> Tcl is not going to be as reliable as Ada but if the code base is small (and Tcl was designed for small code bases) then I should be okay right?
>
> There is an Ada binding:
> http://tcladashell.sourceforge.net/index.htm
>
> Am I walking into any pitfalls here...
>
> Any feedback woudl be appreciated-Patrick
>


If the daemon is controlled by a "slew of simple commands", why not just
control it from the commandline interface? That way your daemon is also
controllable from scripts, making it easier for sysadmins to manage it.

Personally I can't stand daemons that are managed from a GUI, as a GUI
usually limits my ability to control the daemon however I want.

Server software without a decent CLI is a dreadful thing to work with.

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