Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 janvier 2006 à 21:46 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > > Boot speed and python does not really sound a match... > > > > Surprisingly, python is often faster than perl for the same task. > > Boot speed and perl does not really sound a match either. It sounds easier to do high level tas

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:12:35PM +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 21 janvier 2006 à 21:52 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:21:34PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Python is the "official" language of Ubuntu. If w

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 21 janvier 2006 à 01:48 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > Granted if it is a real issue, then why not use perl? Yes, I hate > perl too, but really, the argument "hey, people like Python too" > implies that we should have a scheme interpreter, a perl, a python, > emacs lisp, and wel

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 21 janvier 2006 à 21:52 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:21:34PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Python is the "official" language of Ubuntu. If we want to merge work > > they're doing (Anthony Towns mentioned their work on boot speed, for >

some issues with the proposals for the python packaging infrastructure

2006-01-26 Thread Matthias Klose
While preparing some example packages to experiment with python-central and python-support, I did see some issues with both proposals, in that the dependencies are not fulfilled for every python version that both packaging systems claim to support. Feedback is welcome. For an example see python-pm