<quote who="Dustin J. Mitchell">
> On 11/15/07, Gavin Henry <ghenry@...> wrote:
>> Thanks for that. What is the motive for this rewrite, that is, since
>> you
>> are rewriting an already working toolset?
>
> Also a good question (thanks! I'm updating my presentation
> accordingly). The part I left out of the previous explanation was
> that the new functionality for the Application API, transfer
> architecture, tape append, and so on will use these new interfaces.

Ah, now it makes sense.

> Whether in C or Perl, that new functionality was going to be a
> *significant* rewrite -- it's a fairly signficant change to the way
> Amanda functions. The decision to do that rewrite in Perl was thus
> predicated on the assumption that there would be a rewrite.
>
> Does that clarify?

Perfectly. I just didn't want to see unnecessary work ;-)