From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22815 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Nov 2003 12:18:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31855 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2003 12:18:44 -0000 From: Philippe =?iso-8859-1?q?Lafoucri=E8re?= Reply-To: lafou@wanadoo.fr Organization: UTC To: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:18:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200311281017.54525.thomas_bevan@toll.com.au> <1069977997.12099.19.camel@ht.gentoo.org> <20031128081705.GA9736@unm.edu> In-Reply-To: <20031128081705.GA9736@unm.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311281318.20351.lafou@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage Language X-Archives-Salt: 9226aeb0-d2e3-42e5-8b2c-e2e04e602771 X-Archives-Hash: f9c25b75b0b4f5d38121163b264e22db 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] -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list