From: "Philippe Lafoucrière" <lafou@wanadoo.fr>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage Language
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:18:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311281318.20351.lafou@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031128081705.GA9736@unm.edu>
On Friday 28 November 2003 09:17, Jason Mobarak wrote:
>
> Arguments for Python
> --------------------
>
> Python is a language with a huge user base, standard library and large
> number of third party libraries.
>
> Developer friendly, we have a lot of user submitted patches to portage.
> Chances are more people are going to know languages like Python/Perl/Ruby
> rather than something else (like Scheme/Haskell).
>
> We already have a several developers who are well versed with Python.
> Python's design potential and scalability is quite large... consider
> projects like Zope and Twisted.
>
> We already have a lot of portage code that's already written, it's tested
> and it works, reordering and redesigned it is going to help portage-ng come
> about quicker.
[+1]
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-27 23:17 [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage Language Thomas L. Bevan
2003-11-28 0:06 ` Daniel Robbins
2003-11-28 8:17 ` Jason Mobarak
2003-11-28 12:18 ` Philippe Lafoucrière [this message]
2003-11-28 18:52 ` Daniel Robbins
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