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Re: Python in package development?



On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:25:23PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote:
> If you want Python to take this way, you have to write a tool that
> clearly is better (or complementary) than the Perl one and show that it
> is easier to maintain and understand for those who didn't write it.
> AFAIK, this is what is happening with linda (lintian drop-in
> replacement).

I prefer this approach.
So i would just present my opinion in aonther way: which, of the current
available tools, can get sensible enanchements being rewritte in python?
Is just the act of rewriting a Perl tool using Python that whould bring us
some benefits?

I think not.

I know about linda, but the fact lintian was rewritten in python is a case. The
problem with lintian was not the language used, but the way it was implemented.
Should someone have reimplemented lintian with Perl, using the same
implementation process of linda, it would be a better tool anyway.

Which of the current tools we use has flows the we (you) think could be
enanched being rewritten (and so with python)?

I'd like to read a sane discussion on tecnology more than on language (then,
since this is debian-python...).

ciao,
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