On Fri, 2018-07-27 at 14:53 +0000, Michael Matz wrote: > perl is currently included in the bootstrap set. There's no reason > why python couldn't be included as well,
If Perl is already in the bootstrap set and the awk scripts are hard to maintain then why can't the awk scripts be rewritten in Perl instead of Python? That would avoid adding more prerequisites and surely Perl is sufficiently expressive that it can perform these translations just as well as Python. I understand some people have an issue with Perl's maintainability but just because you CAN write difficult to maintain code in Perl doesn't mean you HAVE to. I've seen plenty of difficult to understand and maintain Python scripting... just saying "use Python" is not a panacea for supportability problems.
