From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 979 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Apr 2003 22:44:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 3181 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2003 22:44:43 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:44:28 -0700 From: Abhishek Amit To: merv Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030416224428.GA31419@datalap.aamit.com> Mail-Followup-To: merv , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <1050456550.2602.24.camel@osiris.ripple.be> <3E9D168C.10392.73F5440@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E9D168C.10392.73F5440@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] initscripts in python X-Archives-Salt: b4734da1-3467-4629-82d9-b75d97db1dea X-Archives-Hash: 9c0bee712f156de20354b5fd506d0991 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list