raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 19:34:12 UTC 2012


On Monday, November 12, 2012 08:15:48 PM Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> > Jan Zelený wrote:
> >> Yes, that's the plan. But dnf is still Python. So if we really want to
> >> get Python out of minimal install, there is a room for possible
> >> alternatives I  guess.
> > 
> > Right. We need to stop writing core system components in scripting
> > languages!
> 
> Well, there are significant advantages to using a higer-level
> language than C.[1]  

But the problem I see is a lot of libraries are wrapped by swig, which leaks 
memory like a sieve.  If swig didn't generate such leaky code, Python based 
daemons wouldn't be as scary.

-Steve


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