BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 12/9/13, 6:36 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote this message on Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 18:26 -0800:
>> On 12/9/13, 2:11 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>> On 9 Dec 2013, at 22:21, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Dec 8, 2013, at 9:13 PM, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> (I don't care if it's JSON, XML or smoke signals just so long as it
>>>>> isn't hideously slow).
>>>>>
>>>> You have described exactly what we are trying to accomplish. Thank you!
>>> OK, great, can you have an implementation by COB Friday? :)
>>>
>>> Although seriously, I do wonder what the best way to implement it would be.
>>>
>>> I can imagine modifying /bin/sh to have such a feature would be somewhat
>>> controversial..
>>>
>> A few interesting targets would be sysctl, ifconfig, gpart, disklabel,
>> ... any others?
> gpart info is already in XML from sysctl kern.geom.confxml...
>
> And disklabel has been retired and replaced by gpart...
>
XML doesn't work for everyone, and as far as disklabel, wasn't aware it 
was toast in HEAD, it's still around in 9.2 and we've been doing most of 
our development there so oops!

-Alfred