-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256
Hi,
I am working on a project designed to mirror large, changing archives of software in a manner that ensures data integrity and atomic updates using a peer-to-peer protocol.
My team and I would like to design this software such that it provides a suitable replacement for rsync. As Fedora is among the leading distributions, I would like to solicit your opinions on the implementation. We have designed much of the architecture, but have not implemented anything yet. One issue we wish to address currently is that of interpreted vs. compiled languages.
My team and I would like to know whether the community would be accepting of such a project (which includes a daemon) if it were written in Python rather than C or C++. If so, it would greatly simplify the implementation and allow it to be more robust. Python's built-in libraries and facilities provide much of the path and network manipulation that the daemon requires. Using the Python standard libraries allows us to rely upon a well-tested base and focus on higher-level issues.
What are your opinions, as system administrators, on using Python for long-running daemon processes when the developers are explicitly mindful of memory considerations?
- --Ben Boeckel