Re: Python in package development?

2002-05-30 Thread Matthias Klose
Florent Rougon writes: > Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure of the usefulness of this approach. > > Even if python is one of my favorite language, it's still too young compared > > wit perl and it's staility. python is still evolving, and we have not, >

Re: Python in package development?

2002-05-30 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:25:23PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > If you want Python to take this way, you have to write a tool that > clearly is better (or complementary) than the Perl one and show that it > is easier to maintain and understand for those who didn't write it. > AFAIK, this is what

Re: Python in package development?

2002-05-30 Thread Florent Rougon
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure of the usefulness of this approach. > Even if python is one of my favorite language, it's still too young compared > wit perl and it's staility. python is still evolving, and we have not, afaik, > sufficent warranties of what

Re: Python in package development?

2002-05-30 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:46:46PM +0400, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > As you may noticed ;), most of the Debian packages now use Perl in their > build-time and install-time scripts. > Why is this? Perhaps, we can make some version of python to be > "default" (Just like we do now with 2.1), and make

Re: Python in package development?

2002-05-30 Thread Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:46:46PM +0400, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > As you may noticed ;), most of the Debian packages now use Perl in their > build-time and install-time scripts. > Why is this? Perhaps, we can make some version of python to be > "default" (Just like we do now with 2.1), and make

Python in package development?

2002-05-30 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
As you may noticed ;), most of the Debian packages now use Perl in their build-time and install-time scripts. Why is this? Perhaps, we can make some version of python to be "default" (Just like we do now with 2.1), and make it a build-essential, and base? Then, we could write a python-debconf, etc.

Bug#148541: ITP: python-jabber -- python library for the Jabber instant messaging platform

2002-05-30 Thread Cosimo Alfarano
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-30 Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-jabber Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Matthew Allum * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/jabberpy/ * License : LGPL Description : python library for the Jabber i