Le lundi 30 janvier 2006 à 10:20 +1100, Matthew Palmer a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > There have already been - admittedly sporadic - proposals to rewrite > > some key parts of the system, like the init scripts or adduser, in > > python. However, if the proponent knows from the beginning the > > implementation wouldn't be accepted because of the language it is > > written in, you can't expect him to start working on it. > > What's this "wouldn't be accepted" nonsense? Are you seriously suggesting > that, if someone rewrote adduser in Python, that it would be rejected by the > ftpmasters *because* it was written in Python?
Yes, this is because all dependencies of a package must be of equal or higher priority. Having adduser depending on python would imply to increase the priority of python. > > Putting python in the set of required packages today would simply be a > > waste of resources. But accepting the idea of putting it in *if* a good > > enough application shows up is the necessary step to have the > > applications show up. Some people here are refusing it by principle. > > They're refusing it on the principle of "the cost/benefit ratio sucks". Not > a bad principle, as things go. The arguments I've heard most are not about that ratio. They're only about "but you can do it in perl!". -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
