On Thu, 15 May 2014 16:08:59 +0200 Sylvain BERTRAND <sylw...@legeek.net> wrote:
> Unfortunately, libquvi on gentoo expects a system > installed lua (with additional modules). > I don't want this high level script language as a system > dependency. I would prefer lua being packaged internally into > libquvi. Coze I would like to quit gentoo one day and have my own > suckless-ish distro, then better do the work now. I don't want > system wide installed > perl/python/ruby/php/lua/guile/javascript... (holy m**** > f*****!), I would rather try to have applications package their > high level script language and don't try to f*** it up our > "system" throat. (and tell the script kiddies: "no, you FOO > script language is not installed, and won't be. Then package your > bloody f****** kludge with your app") I bloody hate those damn scripting languages! The overhead of compiling one piece of software every time it is executed just doesn't make sense to me. Using Gentoo myself and being a big fan of portage, it makes me sad to see it's been written in Python and not a clean and secure language you would expect to see for a package-management-program. Even worse, there are like only 4-6 people maintaining portage for the sole reason the code is full of cruft and bloat. This is the reason why I'd welcome switching to a suckless operating system to finally get rid of this crap! A build-system mustn't be bloody 40k LOC and definitely not written in Python! I agree it's very tempting to write stuff with scripting languages, as writing things in C can get complicated and generally need more time. But it's not like we don't have solutions for that. Look at Go for example, which can definitely become a big player in this regard. Liking how portage does it with use-, license-, masking-flags, dependency-resolution and global-updates, I'm currently working on a concept for a build-system very similar to what has already been done in morpheus with the ports-makefiles. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
