Re: choice of implementation language

[Simon Josefsson]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>> > So I conclude that the choices are
>> >
>> >   Perl
>> >   Python
>> >   Ruby
>
> FWIW, my preferences are: sticking with what we currently have, or
> Perl.

Yeah, I forgot to say that: I don't see a critical problem with
gnulib-tool written in shell today.  It has grown into a complex script,
which can be difficult to debug and understand, and it can be quite slow
sometimes (so I appreciate optimizations).  But it has worked fine for
me for a long time, and it isn't clear to me that moving to perl or
something else would be an overall improvement.

/Simon