Stephan Krings <slothkri(_at_)zedat(_dot_)fu-berlin(_dot_)de>:
Not a bad idea. Up to now I've only toyed around with Python, but I
liked it. The only real reason against your undertaking may be, that
there are still a lot more people knowing C than Python. So the list
of possible contributers might be much shorter.
On the other hand, experienced C hackers generally find they can get
up to speed in Python with very little effort once presented with a
reason to bother. I've had a lot of experience of this effect
recently in connection with CML2 -- I not infrequently got correct
patches from people who wrote "I don't know Python, but...".
At the end is a patch, which fixes this particular problem for me. It
tries to detect, if SockRead could not deliver a complete line and
reads on then, resizing the line-array on each pass. I'm not sure, if
it's really the right way, but it worked for me during some small
tests. The patch is against 5.8.7.
I'm testing it now.
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