Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 3/8] tac is not portable

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Josh,

[Josh Boyer]
> If soneone does get ambitious enough to do this, my preference would
> be in python.  I find it more readable than perl.  Plus, gquilt is
> already written in python, so integration would be easy.

That second reason sounds wrong to me. A front-end isn't supposed to
know about the internals of the tool it interfaces with, or both end up
being so dependent from each other that you obtain a single application
and other candidate front-ends are likely to die.

Oh well, jut my opinion I guess.

-- 
Jean Delvare