<div dir="ltr">Ok, thanks Eric and Hal. Please file a bug against it, tagging it as broken, uses Perl, uses Mode 7. Don't stop work on other stuff on your plate.<div><br></div><div>Sanjeev, do you know Python? Would you like to take a crack at re-implementing loopstats in Python?</div><div><br></div><div>..m</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:24 PM Eric S. Raymond <<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">esr@thyrsus.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mark Atwood <<a href="mailto:fallenpegasus@gmail.com" target="_blank">fallenpegasus@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> How much effort is it to make it use mode 6?<br>
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I haven't scoped the job exactly, but my guess is probably not a whole lot.<br>
The equivalent mode 6 report, assuming there is one, will be textual and<br>
probably simpler to parse than the mode 7 report was.<br>
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It'll take a rewrite of loopstats, but that was going to happen<br>
anyway; (a) the mode 7 code is obsolete, and (b) in general I don't<br>
intend for us to leave any code in Perl, it's too big a maintainance<br>
problem.<br>
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I'd really like to understand the actual *function* of loopstats for an NTP<br>
admin, though. Doing this kind of conversion while blind to the actual<br>
use cases tends to lead to amusing mistakes.<br>
--<br>
<a href="<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.catb.org/~esr/</a>">Eric S. Raymond</a><br>
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