IRRToolSet 4.8.4 and broken tools

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joao Damas <Joao_Damas at isc.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:06:34 -0400
> Sender: irrtoolset-bounce at isc.org
> 
> all the gui tools have been missing attention for some years.
> They were never targetted for RPSLng updates, for instance, and from  
> the time the RIPE NCC took them over from ISI it seemed like no one  
> actually was using the GUI tools, so there was no incentive to  
> maintain that code as it is a bit nightmarish to start with
> 
> Does anyone else use the GUI tools?
> 
> Joao Damas
> ISC
I used to, but have not for several years.

I'd like to see GUI tools, but I think Tk may not have been the best
choice as a toolkit to build them on. (Nothing against Tk. I use a Tk
based mail tool, exmh.)

The tools were a bit clunky on the human interface side and really
should have been consolidated into a single tool...perhaps with tabs for
different object types. This would also make for a reasonably extensible
tool. 

I miss them a bit, but can certainly live without them and am not about
to spend the time to update or re-write them myself.
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