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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">Are you familiar with C programming at all? Your
question "...is the hobbitd_sample.c something that I should look at for this?"
almost sounds like you may not be. You could be for a long haul if
your intent is to learn a programming language while converting your existing
Hobbit shell script into something more efficient. It's not going to be a
simple cut-paste-compile scenerio, that's for sure. Pardon me if I've
interpreted you posting incorrectly.</font></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I was asking that to determine if is an appropriate model specifically for an extension script. But yes, I am familiar with C programming.
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Personally, I use PERL for my Hobbit server scripts, except
the ones that are the simplest-of-the-simple, and for those I do use just plain
inefficent shell. I know C as well, but find PERL to be amost as efficient
for what I do, and a heckuva lot quicker to program in.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I am considering C mostly because I'm starting to out-grow the capabilities of simple shell programming, rather than purely efficiency reasons. Perl would probably also work.
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span class="q"><b>From:</b> Gary Baluha [mailto:<a href="mailto:gumby3203@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">gumby3203@gmail.com</a>]
<br></span><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:13 PM<span class="q"><br><b>To:</b>
<a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [hobbit] Server-side extension scripts: shell
vs. C programming<br></span></font><br></div>
<span class="q"><div></div>I remember reading somewhere in the Hobbit documentation that when an
extension script starts to do a lot of things, it should be coded in a compiled
language such as C, instead of as a shell script. I have a custom script
that takes a lot of data and converts it into NCV graphs, and I believe it is at
the point where I should consider rewriting it in C. <br><br>Before I get to far
into it, is the hobbitd_sample.c something that I should look at for this?
I'm not sure if I'm reading the documentation on it correctly, if it is a good
example for an external script. Has anyone else had experience in needing
to convert a shell script to C/C++/etc for Hobbit? I'm just trying to get
a rough idea of how much effort this will require. <br></span></div>
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