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

[Peter Williams]

Jean Delvare wrote:
> 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.

I agree with this argument but, like Josh, would still prefer Python 
over Perl (if there was a rewrite) from the code maintenance point of 
view.  I gave up writing Perl scripts years ago (and switched to Python) 
because I found it hard to understand even my own programs after the 
passage of (even relatively short periods of) time. :-(

In gquilt, I'm attempting to make the interface between it and the back 
end more generic (and formal) so that it can be used with other tools 
such as "stacked GIT".  So having quilt rewritten in Python shouldn't 
cause too much interdependence between it and gquilt.

> Oh well, jut my opinion I guess.

It's still valid though. :-)

Peter
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