Re: Python in package development?

2002-05-31 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
Hm. Actually, the idea has been not to _force_ others use python, but to allow those that don't like Perl for some reasons, do the stuff using the tool they like. This could be made by providing the same infrastructure for debian packages development as there is now, but using some other language a

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.