[geeks] perlish disgruntlement, java considered, sunhardware sought

[Kurt Huhn]

David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:04:44AM -0400, alex j avriette wrote:
> 
> > hmmmmmmmm. i had our head developer come to me a couple days ago telling
> > me that he couldnt get `sendmail` to work. yeah, he's making system
> > calls (again, just like he did with rsh in perl) from our "good" java
> > code that is definitely production (live as of next monday morning).
> 
> Could you explain exactly why calling sendmail from perl is so bad?  I have
> no idea about how it might be done from Java, so can't comment on whether
> that's a good thing or not.
> 

In our case, the language we're using is Java, and is designed to be
portable to a multitude of platforms and OSs.  Assuming Sendmail is
installed is a Bad Thing - especially on Windows boxen.  Even hardened
Unix boxen may have had sendmail disabled or removed.
-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com