Rewriting nsclient? (was NSClient 1.0.8.0 Installation Problem)

[Tom DE BLENDE]

Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I am writing to thank you for your letter, your sincere and realistic
> support of the Nagios project, the clear rationale you have given for
> your work and comment on some of your words.

Amen. It's a good thing to see NSClient has come to live again! Keep 
on the good work.

> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:25:42AM -0400, Tim Shouldice wrote:

>>Coding on Windows is a horrible task, coding a service is even worse, given that how can I make it as painless as possible?
>>
>>Perl would be nice, however requiring NT admins to install Perl on their boxes is sometimes hard, some NT admins believe WSH is all
>>they'll ever need and think Perl is something they buy at a jewelry 
>>store.
> 
> 
> Yep. Same here. Not all Windows admins are dills but quite a few are
> happy to only point-and-click. (Those here wouldn't even code in wsh.  
> Excel macros if you are lucky).

I'm a Windows admin for around 60% of my time here. And to tell you 
the truth, I'm very reluctant to install Active Perl on all of our 
Windows boxes just to be able to use a new version of NSClient. Not 
that I don't trust Perl to do the job, but it's just too much of a 
hassle and a lot of work.

> To my way of thinking, you are the one doing the work, and you can code 
> in whatever language you choose. 

True. But still, it must be something easy to use and to deploy in 
large environments. And then the only option is using a binary, the 
way it is done now.

Kind regards,
Tom




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