Re: standardizing on a language
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:52:23AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:23:30AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > Preferences? Once we have a common language, we can have a common
> > library as well (ages ago, I wrote half a Kconfig parser in racc; that
> > seems like it'd be useful for all kinds of scripts, but I'm not going to
> > spend any more time on it until we decide whether I should continue in
> > racc, or use something python-y).
> >
> >
>
>
> I'm rather disappointed by the lack of responses to this. I don't intend
> to do any more infrastructure work on the kernel packages until we pick
> something; I don't particularly feel like having the things I write
> rewritten multiple times, nor do I want to bother rewriting other people's
> stuff.
The one doing the work is the one going to pick the language :) I am fine with
whatever gets used, but i will probably not contribute any fixes if it is in
some random strange and unobvious language. Since the choice seems to be
python, ruby or perl, and i am not fluent in either of those, i doubt my
opinion counts very much.
(and BTW, i did vote for ocaml on irc, but then i guess that means nobody but
me would understand it, so i understand that it is best not to chose that
one).
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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