[Lxc-users] Control panel

[Matto Fransen]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
 
> > One of the nice things IMHO of LXC Linux Containers is that it hardly
> > needs any extra's on the host. The user-space app's are either
> > compiled C-programs or bash-scripts. There is one Perl application
> > but that is not-critical and one can do without.
> > 
> > I would love to see it stay that way. At the moment, it is very
> > doable to set up a host containing just a minimal system (like
> > kernel, busybox, ssh or dropbear, some libs and the LXC-app's).
> > 
> > So I would recommend to see of this could be done either in
> > shellscript or C, or otherwise stay at Perl.
> 
> (just making sure)
> 
> Meaning you think python would be too heavyweight?

Well, not perhaps heavy weight, but would still add another dependencie.

At the moment you can run LXC without the need of Python.
When we would stick to shellscript or compiled C, we could keep it that
way :)

Cheers,

Matto