From: Abhishek Amit <abhishekamit2000@yahoo.com>
To: merv <merv@spidernet.com.cy>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] initscripts in python
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:44:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030416224428.GA31419@datalap.aamit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E9D168C.10392.73F5440@localhost>
On 08:38 Wed 16 Apr , merv wrote:
> It may be a difficult one to call though. I imagine that many would feel
> similar sentiments about the scripting advantages of both Python and
> shell scripting. Maybe practicality would have the last say, however.
> On machines with very limited resources (I have a box running Gentoo
> on a Pentium 133Mhz and < 1GB harddrive with 64Mb RAM), Python
> would be a death sentence for the box. Shell scripting is the only
> option in such environments for job control etc etc.
>
If you run gentoo python is a requirment that you can not avoid in any
way. Portage is completly python. So I don't really see how python could
be too heavy unless you mean specifically for running these scripts.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-16 1:29 [gentoo-dev] initscripts in python Justin Whitney
2003-04-16 4:09 ` Daniel Armyr
2003-04-16 5:38 ` merv
2003-04-16 7:25 ` Jeff Rose
2003-04-16 8:49 ` merv
2003-04-16 8:19 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-04-16 8:52 ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-04-16 20:54 ` Justin Whitney
2003-04-17 20:05 ` merv
2003-04-17 5:49 ` Joseph Carter
2003-04-17 6:27 ` George Shapovalov
2003-04-17 18:25 ` merv
2003-04-17 7:42 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-04-16 22:44 ` Abhishek Amit [this message]
2003-04-17 6:45 ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-04-17 20:56 ` merv
2003-04-17 22:26 ` Caleb Shay
2003-04-17 23:32 ` merv
2003-04-17 18:18 ` merv
2003-04-16 21:08 ` Brad Laue
2003-04-17 6:47 ` Sven Vermeulen
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2003-04-16 11:13 merv
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