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Re: new sysinstall


From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:16:29 -0500


On Sep 1, 2003, at 4:34 PM, Bill Huey (hui) wrote:


On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:23:15AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
If RedHat has been using Python to good effect for system utilities and
sysop supporting scripting then that is a good recommendation for
Python, and from other messages posted to this list I no longer worry
so much about version mismatches between base and package-installed
Python revs. All of our own scripts would explicitly path to a versioned
python (e.g. #!/usr/local/bin/python2.2 or something similar)

Python is very good and has very good support.

Yep. Which is why I think we could go with it. [I am warming up to PHP too though]



In fact, so many people seem more familiar with Python then Ruby that I
think we should discard Ruby from our list of possibilities and move
Python up a notch.

Ruby is a great system, even more regular than Python, but the library support is somewhat sparce. Also portupgrade is written in Ruby.


I can't think of any other significant piece of code written in Ruby. :)


Bit torrent is written in Python... Top that! [actually please don't... I am stating in jest]

Anaconda is a pretty rich Python based installer for the Red Hat linux distribution and
allows things like kickstart to happen [which is used a lot on clusters] sounds like we
could do something similar with Python and get DragonflyBSD into clustering...


Really... I don't care if we use a language we create ourselves for the installer. As long
as its flexible enough to get the job done and meet all the requirements.


It's really a toss up, as it concerns programming methodology
between the two for me, so the determining factor should be
the specific issues involved in implementing this. It might be
that a specific kind of library support would tip one over the
other. I suggest keeping it in the arsenal of possibilities,
but with a preference for Python.


Yes ... it always boils down to this.... requirements. Let's be engineers about this :).


bill





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