Re: Re: [patch rfc 1/3] xen arch header rework.

[Julian Davison <julian-xen_devel@tech.cbhs.school.nz>]

Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 10:56 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
>>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>>   alien build-essential debhelper defoma dpkg-dev ethereal fontconfig
>>>   intltool-debian libcompress-zlib-perl libfontconfig1 libft-perl
>>>   libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libmail-sendmail-perl
>>>   libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libxft2 ntp ntp-server ntp-simple
>>>   perl perl-doc perl-modules po-debconf rpm ttf-bitstream-vera xterm
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 28 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>> Need to get 0B of archives.
>>> After unpacking 59.8MB disk space will be freed.
>>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
>>> Abort.
> 
> I guess I just cannot fathom the infinite wisdom that leads to a widget
> toolkit or a truetype font requiring a script language interpreter to
> run. This example describes perfectly why Linux will never be a serious
> threat to any of the real desktop platforms out there, most of the
> application code is so tangled up in external dependencies that
> packaging up software stand-alone is practially impossible, version
> conflicts (two applications requiring different version of say, perl)
> are inevitable, and performance just plain sucks, because developers
> prefer comfortable (perl, python) to fast and predictable (C, C++). Oh
> well.

I'm with Steven in that we're getting well off topic here,
but I'm not in any way convinced this is unique to Linux.
Nor am I certain that's an accurate evaluation of those
languages :)
But this isn't the place.

> Xen already requires python, so using python instead of perl in the
> build script does not further bloat the requirements list.

I think ultimately this is what it comes down to.
The more consistent the code/utility base the better
it is for maintainers and builders.

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