> On Jul 18, 2018, at 11:13 AM, Boris Kolpackov <bo...@codesynthesis.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 14:49 +0200, Martin Liška wrote: > >> My question is simple: can we starting using a scripting language like >> Python and replace usage of the AWK scripts? > > I wonder what will be the expected way to obtain a suitable version of > Python if one is not available on the build machine? With awk I can > build it from source pretty much anywhere. Is building newer versions > of Python on older targets a similarly straightforward process (somehow > I doubt it)? What about Windows? It's the same sort of thing: untar the sources, configure, make, make install. The code is larger than awk but the process is no more difficult. For Windows there are pre-built kits. Ditto for a number of other popular operating systems. paul
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