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On Monday 17 March 2003 09:00 am, Alain Penders wrote: |
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> http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-src/cursingcow/ |
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> That's the installer that's currently being worked on. Most recent |
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> change: 8 weeks ago. |
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I've worked with Java considerably. It would be a good choice for most |
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purposes, including something such as this. However, Gentoo is generally |
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built around python, which is a great language as well for many of the |
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same reasons. |
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Ultimately, we could do the Gentoo toolchain any languages -- java, perl, |
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tcl, ruby, etc. Parts of the toolchain are in some of these languages. |
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However, python (by-and-large) is the standard at Gentoo. |
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Just my $.02/.01¤/.02¥/.01£/etc: |
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We should be working to switch any of the existing toolchain that ISN'T |
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python (bash, perl, whatever) to be redone in python. New tools should |
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be written in python only, and we deviate from this policy only when it's |
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absolutely essential to do so. |
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The consistency of using a coding standard such as that would simplify |
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(reducing the dependencies in the toolchain) and lower the required QA |
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effort of the entire project down the road. |
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Finally, I generally agree with drobbins that XML should be used whenever |
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possible. Including changelogs. |
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If an effort is made to adhere to this coding standard, Gentoo will mature |
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in a faster, more predictable fashion... possibly at the expense of a few |
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gurus in other languages. I myself am no expert in python, but I'm |
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prepared to be for Gentoo. |
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I would hate to see someone invest a lot of time in writing a tool for |
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Gentoo that does its job well, but doesn't fit in very nicely with |
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everything else. It usually means the tool will get rewritten at some |
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point in the future... thus we bump into the Law of Diminishing Returns. |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson |
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