[fpc-pascal] SNMP and MIBs

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> On 29.01.2011 17:27, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
>>>>>> I can definitely see why it would be useful, but I'm not sure it
>>>>>> could be done at runtime
>>>>> I would go in the directly of IDispatch. COM object querying.
>>>> What are the cross-platform implications of that? Presumably once an
>>>> MIB description had been parsed it could be written out in any number
>>>> of forms.
>>>
>>> None. While originally devised for COM, the language support is afaik OS
>>> independant. But I missed the bit about generating the objects from a
>>> different source.
>>>
>>> But, like you, I have not the faintest interest in such endeavour. I 
>>> only
>>> know MIB from sysctl usage, not from SNMP
>>
>> It's not so much that I haven't got the faintest interest as I hadn't
>> intended to look at it and I've probably got more profitable things to 
>> do.
>>
>> Didn't somebody mention an FPC parser class a few weeks ago?
>>
> 
> You mean fcl-passrc (found in $fpcdir/packages/fcl-passrc)?

I think so. So in practice highly Pascal-oriented- I might be better 
using my own which I'm obviously familiar with, or seeing what I can do 
with the Perl one. Assuming I do anything at all that is.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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