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From: mcannon at 21stcentury.net (Michael J. Cannon)
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 23:40:19 -0500
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Subject: Python and Nutcracker
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References: <370B62F2.93D76301@oi42.kwu.siemens.de>
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Message-ID: <3712CAB2.77A5AF2B@21stcentury.net>
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Dr Tschammer:
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Speaking from experience, both in supporting (independently of
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DataFocus) and porting, all I can say is be careful of the I/O and
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exception handling in the Nutcracker, especially when addressing issues
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involved in Winsock and calls to any messaging .dll's or libraries.
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Also, your users will have to disable the Nutcracker service manually
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when doing backups from NT databases on the server (especially SQL
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server and Oracle) and then manually restart, as cron and at -type calls
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are problematic with the Nutcracker services running. Finally, license
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WinBatch for your customers/users as they will need it.
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Personally, I have given up on Nutcracker as support is both expensive
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and a nightmare of frustrated users. My preferred platform is now Java
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(via javat) or a mix of c (GNU C or C+/++) and python.
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For a taste of what you're in for as far as support, check out the EDI-L
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mailing list and watch for messages on Harbinger's TLE product (formerly
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UNIX PREMENOS), or see if you can't get in contact with someone who will
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honestly critique NUWC's efforts (prominently featured on the DataFocus
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site).
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My feeling is that Nutcracker was a good idea with a rushed
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implementation. With all the faults of NT, to depend on a set of
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libraries existing as a service, poorly implemented, is asking for
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trouble.
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"Dr. Armin Tschammer" wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Has anyone experience with Python and Nutcracker ?
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> We are using embedded Python in our application which
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> is developed under HPUX.
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> We are now porting our application to Windows NT
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> with the help of the Nutcracker library.
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> Has anyone already done such stuff ?
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>
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> Armin
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