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Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts



On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 11:28 -0500, James Vega wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:
> > On 03/09/2011 01:05 AM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> >>> Most of the script are written in Python. Rewriting them to get them
> >>> included in devscripts is too much work without benefit. devscripts
> >>> would depend on python then.
> >>
> >> Most of the scripts are short.  Rewriting would be fairly simple, and
> >> may be beneficial in removing the Ubuntu-specific bits.
> >
> > Python si very common these days, I think allowing Python scripts to go
> > into devscripts would bring some more contributors and useful scripts to
> > devscripts. I think there is no need to waste a developer's time to
> > rewrite working stuff in a different language.
> 
> I also think that going off and writing scripts in Python when one knows
> that devscripts is a Perl and shell project
[...]

devscripts is a project?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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