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Re: Bug#177285: ITP: oak -- Python DNS Server



On Sunday 19 January 2003 12:59, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>
> IMHO the fact 'oak' is written in python needs not to be mentioned in
> short description field, a user installas a name server for its external
> functionalities (feel free to consider it a black-box approach), not for
> the language it's written in.
>
> Things could be different if oak, for example, can provide user
> extensions written in python or similar, but it seems not the case (from
> your descriptons ...).
>
> Cheers.

actually a user is likely to care because they may not want the python depends 
or runtime penalty just for a dns server. they may be shopping for a 
replacement to bind and are looking at the available choices.



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