On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman <bdhee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/11/2012 10:33 AM, Shiv wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >>> From: Balwinder S Dheeman <bdhee...@gmail.com> >>> To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org >>> Cc: >>> Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2012 6:50 PM >>> Subject: Re: [ilugd] ISPunity: featured in efytimes.com >>>> ISPunity can be used by individuals or SME or Enterprises. >>> Good job indeed, though a dependency on ruby seems to be an overkill to >>> me; IMHO, all system level or command line tools, scripts and, or >>> utilities should be light weight, whereas your ISPUnity thing is far >>> from K.I.S.S. and, or Unix philosophy. >>> >>> BTW, did not you bother to look at what's already available on the >>> Internet? >> >> I'm sure there are many such apps/distros/solutions available. >> We've been using m0n0wall and pfSense (both freeBSD based) for a long time >> now and Vyatta more recently. >> It would be a shame to belittle Arun's efforts by suggesting that he is >> "re-inventing"� the wheel. > > Yes, he is re-inventing the wheel; you confirmed it and that too using > wrong or bloated interpreter and dependencies.
That is rather silly. Would you care to explain your logic there? From the face of your arguments, any seemingly small task, if accomplished by a Ruby script, is bloatware? Then I have committed that mistake many times. Or is it the presence a test suite, a project folder structure, usage of standard build infrastructure like Rake etc. that offends you? Much of it is automated in Ruby land, and even if it were not, you should be thankful that someone took out the time to do all that for an open source project. You may be content in the land of shell scripts and C binaries, and may even be "real programmer" enough to not need any supporting infrastructure, however Ruby is one of the best languages around, suitable for any task regardless of its size. Just because you don't like it, doesn't give you leeway to belittle people who do. -- Anupam _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
