Re: [tor-dev] Is anyone using tor-fw-helper? (Was Re: BOINC-based Tor wrapper)

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:38:00AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:

Yawning's mail below reminds me: I am considering removing the C implementation of tor-fw-helper from the tor distribution, and recommending Yawning's pure-Go implementation instead. But before I do this, I'd like to get some sense of whether folks are shipping tor-fw-helper today, or using it in practice.

pure-Go implementation does not compiled on many archs. Because Go's "gc" compiler supports only i386, amd64, ARM and IBM POWER processor architectures (from Wikipedia) and gccgo, GCC frontend (GCC >= 4.6), does not work everywhere too because of old architecture or architecture's resctriction.

C implementation working everywhere.

So, what is the purpose?