Hi, On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 07:01:39PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > If there are no better qualified volunteers, I'm willing to take over > sbuild. Does Francesco Paolo Love no longer want to do it? > > I have started on a rewrite in C++, though it's still in the early > stages. What I need most is a clear explaation of how to calculate > the build dependencies/conflicts--I've not got my head around all that > Perl yet! This includes merging central src deps. In it's current > (Perl) state, I don't feel I could do a good job--it needs rewriting > (with more comments!!) in a language that will allow better > maintenance. Do really think that C++ programs inherently allows better maintenance than Perl programs? I highly doubt that. There's nothing in Perl that makes it hard to maintain; it allows as much encapsulation and other OO-isms to provide the same extra maintainability that you can get from the OO features of C++. Maintainability is a feature of the software you write, much more than of the language you write your software in. I also think that Perl is much more powerful for these text processing jobs. The actual reason seems more that you understand C++ better than Perl. But if you're any good at C++, you'd probably be able to lean to write maintainable Perl in weeks if not days. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen emile@e-advies.nl tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl
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