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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:58:09 +0200
From: Harry Lachanas <grharry@freemail.gr>
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To: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Shorewall shell - EOL announcement
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Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Harry Lachanas <grharry@freemail.gr 
> <mailto:grharry@freemail.gr>> wrote:
>
>     I quote from the shorewall list
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>     " Shorewall 4.4, which will be released late this year, will no longer
>     include Shorewall-shell. There will be just four packages included in
>     Shorewall 4.4:
>
> ....
>
> I saw. I expressed a wish for shorewall-lua which Tom was not 
> interested in.
>
> So, we can either try make shorewall-perl run with miniperl (which is 
> available in 1.9 branch already) or start look for alternatives.
>
We should consider asking shorewall developers to at least support 
miniperl after all we are not the only ones with this problem ...
> My personal take on it is that if we will depend on perl anyway, we 
> migh want have a look at ferm instead.
We have to accept the fact that shorewall has a pretty good number of 
installations and hence the knowledge base is much more wide.

Ferm might be ok for specific cases but since I never had the chance to 
try it in a production env I am not able to say much about it.

With shorewall what ever the problem might be there will be a solution 
of some form after a while ...

It is a very live project.

Harry.









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