[Nfd-dev] ndncat/putchunks: ndn-cxx or NFD tools?

[Junxiao Shi]

Hi Steve

I'll begin with the third question.

My observation and opinion is: a tool shall be bundled with ndn-cxx if it
can be used without installing NFD.
The two tools bundled with ndn-cxx are:

   - ndnsec: controls the KeyChain
   - tlvdump: parses the packet format

They both don't require NFD.


I recognize that there are certain tools which are not closely related to
NFD, but are useful in most places where NFD is installed.
They include:

   - peek and poke
   - catchunks and putchunks
   - ping and pingserver

I suggest creating a separate "ndn-tools" repository which contains all
these tools.
Operator still installs from three repositories, ndn-cxx, NFD, ndn-tools
(formerly ndn-tlv-ping), so this change doesn't increase the difficulty of
deployment.

Yours, Junxiao

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Steve DiBenedetto <dibenede at cs.colostate.edu
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There is an ongoing tools discussion related to issue #2106:
>
> http://redmine.named-data.net/issues/2106
> http://gerrit.named-data.net/#/c/1581/
>
> The existing ndn-cxx/tools ndncat/putchunks3 are being reworked. The final
> programs are slated to live under ndn-cxx/examples and the original
> ndn-cxx/tools versions will be deleted.
>
> However, there is an open question over whether or not the new programs
> are also useful as tools. If they are, then we need to decide whether they
> should live under NFD/tools or ndn-cxx/tools. There is also a maintenance
> concern over having the same code in both ndn-cxx/examples and in one of
> the tools directories.
>
> Questions:
> 1. Are ndncat/putchunks useful tools? (now with latest version discovery
> and in order output)
> 2. If so, where should they live?
> 3. What determines whether something is an NFD or ndn-cxx tool?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
>
>
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