Re: Go on sparc

> On Nov 12, 2019, at 16:42, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> November 12, 2019 5:45 PM, "Chris Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Well, I don’t know how easy that would be either. These were both, I believe, written by Gilles. I
>> would appreciate your input Gilles. I see both of these particularly tools, opensmtpd filters, are
>> Golang only and require nothing beyond the standard library. It would be ugly, but I might be able
>> to hack them into my system with the go fork you mention above. Whether or not I _want_ to is more
>> complicated. :-/
>> 
> 
> I don't know what input to provide here :-)

Just your experience, I guess.  Thank you for that.  ;-)

> The API was designed so that it is very easy to write filters using tools you know, so if you wonder
> if you should hack an old go fork or use an existing filter as a model to write your own, my take is
> to go the second option as you will avoid having to maintain a huge hack and might just have a thing
> working in an hour or so.
> 
> There is a C library by martijn@ that can ease writing a C filter btw.

Great to know that, too.  Thanks.  I’ll take a swing at that.  Might be faster to write in python, but if
there’s already a library to give structure, C will be as easy and is preferred.

         - Chris