whois package

[Jonathan Kamens]

>  From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw@staff.crosswalk.com>
>  Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:22:40 -0500
>  
>  I got a couple of notes last week from Chris and Jonathan Kamens suggesting
>  bw-whois as the package of choice, but no pro or con list.

Well, I gave you some pros and cons, but they focused on meta-issues
rather than on the actual functionality of the two packages.  I
personally think it's easier to maintain a Perl script than a compiled
program, and I don't consider the ability to run in a "stripped down
cygwin" is terribly important, but I can see that other people might,
which is why I dropped the argument :-).

I doubt the functionality of bw-whois is so different from the GNU
package you mentioned that it makes much of a difference which one you
choose.  So if you're willing to do the work, and you'd rather
maintain the GNU version, I think you should go for it.

  jik