Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?
On 2004-01-31, Nicos Gollan penned:
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> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:32:55 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman"
> <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote:
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>> It looks like, in order to be useful on a base install, my tool must
>> be either compiled or bash. Okay. My question is, to what extent
>> would I be alienating my audience if I used, say, interpreted python
>> or perl? It seems like perl is required for an awful lot of debian
>> tools.
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> You can depend on perl, there is no debian without perl. You can
> recover from a botched libc6, but break your perl installation and you
> pretty much have to reinstall from scratch.
Ugh. That's ... scary.
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monique
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