Re: [hobbit] Re: Information about Hobbit architecture

[Gildas Le Nadan <gn1 (at) sanger.ac.uk>]

Stef Coene wrote:
> On Thursday 16 November 2006 16:42, Gildas Le Nadan wrote:
>
> > Hi Henrik,
> >
> > The content of this mail should IMHO be copy/pasted and added to the
> > hobbit documentation!
> >
> > Just a random thought: wouldn't it be possible to have a pure shell or
> > perl script hobbit client running from a cron job?
>
> I think there is a perl script that can be used to replace the bb command.
> Most systems have a perl binary.  You can even netcat to replace the bb 
> command, you just need to be able to send some data over the network.
>
>
> Stef

No, sh and telnet are widely available binaries. Perl relies on far too 
many libs to be usable. And a lot of the old architectures don't have 
netcat or a usable compiler/libs.

Gildas