Re: adduser rewrite
On 28 Aug 2001 18:25:04 -0700, David Nusinow wrote:
> Sorry for being unclear. I meant, would one app rewrite in C make a big
> difference in ditching perl in the base? Not the app rewrite in python, which
> I agree would be a bad move.
>
Oh, sorry. ^,^ Well, one app rewritten in C would help, because if no
apps are rewriten in C, we'll never get them all done, now, while we?
Also, speaking of rewriting with the assumption of not wanting perl in
base, wasn't the GNU project talking about rewriting autoconf/automake
in guile? I thought guile was an extension language, but if it can make
stand-alone scripts too, it might be worthwhile to rewrite them in
scheme instead of python/C. C would be a chore to maintain code for
things best left to data-oriented languages, not a system-oriented
language. ~,^
> - David Nusinow
> krmt1984@ucla.edu
>
> On Tuesday 28 August 2001 06:19 pm, you wrote:
> > On 28 Aug 2001 17:57:29 -0700, David Nusinow wrote:
> > > How many base packages require perl? Would one app rewrite make that big
> > > a difference?
> >
> > Yes, it would. If an one app required python, and all the other require
> > perl, then you need both perl and python. As it stands now you only
> > need perl.
> >
> > Either they all need to be switched to python, nothing should be
> > switched to python, or select apps should be switched and left and
> > alternatives to the perl version.
> >
> > > - David Nusinow
> > > krmt1984@ucla.edu
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:06 pm, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > > > In reference to a message from Roland Bauerschmidt, dated Aug 28:
> > > > > I am in the process of rewriting adduser from scratch in Python...
> > > > > There
> > > >
> > > > Please don't. adduser is in base and part of the boot-floppies
> > > > bootstrap process. Creating more dependencies is a Bad Thing(tm).
> > > >
> > > > If anything, rewrite it in C and help us drop perl from the base
> > > > tarball.
> > > >
> > > > randolph
> > >
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