an update on me

[Francis Dupont]

> I note that I picked up my lenovo T400 cheap in Paris,
> on 'the street of the Chinese vendors', which if I can find a
> subway map

=> looks like the Surcouf area behind gare de Lyon.

> > You didn't ask but the client is supported by any POSIX box,
> > included recent WIN32 (recent: VS 2010 and full IPv6 support).
> > There are some differences in Python too, the client runs on
> > v2 (including old versions, cf RedHat :-) and v3, fake servers only
> > on recent v2.
> 
> I'm confused about the client's language now.

=> it is written in C (but is C++ compatible with a good C/C++ compiler
as the Visual Studio 2010 one) with Python 'bindings' which work for
both Python 2 and Python 3. Sample tools are in C and Python (exactly
they were written in C and ported to Python, at the exception of
a swiss knife 'interactive' client which is Python only).

Note both the server and the client libraries can be used on a CPE
(in fact always the server to make the CPE to handle PCP requests,
and the client when the CPE includes any kind of PCP proxy, so is
itself a PCP client too).

> At present I do not have access to isc's internal resources, and do
> not have a contract as yet, either. I've been a friend of the family
> for a long time, tho...

=> ask Paul (Paul Selkirk, you should know there is at least another
Paul :-)

> I am discouraged by the state of multicast in linux in general.

=> I believed the "bug report == personal offense" time was finished
(but I am a BSD guy so I stay far from Linux and its zealots :-).

Regards

Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org>