From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:57:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B1DD78.5040907@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121125024451.1ADD14065F@snark.thyrsus.com>
Am 25.11.2012 03:44, schrieb Eric S. Raymond:
> That, among other things, means up-to-date versions of Python are
> ubiquitous unless we're looking at Windows - in which case Perl and
> shell actually become much bigger portability problems.
You seem to ignore that more than a quater of users are on Windows[1].
This is not negligible.
Therefore, we *are* looking at Windows. But where is there a portability
problem? There is a POSIX shell available in all git installations on
Windows. So is Perl. Python is not.
[1]
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2011#10._On_which_operating_system.28s.29_do_you_use_Git.3F
> 4) We should be encouraging C code to move to Python, too.
Absolutely not. To achieve best portability, all code should move to C
instead.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-25 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-25 2:44 Python extension commands in git - request for policy change Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 3:15 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-11-25 5:18 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 8:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 9:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 11:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 17:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 21:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 21:56 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 13:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 7:54 ` David Aguilar
2012-11-27 8:43 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 9:17 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-11-27 10:51 ` David Aguilar
2012-11-27 22:01 ` Guillaume DE BURE
2012-11-27 15:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2012-11-28 2:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 17:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2012-11-25 10:26 ` Pat Thoyts
2012-11-25 10:33 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 15:51 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-11-25 8:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 9:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 11:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 17:32 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 21:43 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 22:44 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 11:05 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-11-25 10:44 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-11-25 10:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 11:51 ` David Lang
2012-11-25 12:01 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-11-25 17:44 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 11:25 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-12-11 5:44 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-12-12 0:09 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-12-12 0:28 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-12-12 0:53 ` Tomas Carnecky
2012-12-12 1:50 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-12-12 2:22 ` Tomas Carnecky
2012-12-12 2:26 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-12-12 5:15 ` Joshua Jensen
2012-12-12 3:30 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-12-12 5:11 ` Joshua Jensen
2012-12-12 12:23 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-12-12 6:32 ` Jeff King
2012-12-12 7:03 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-12-12 8:32 ` Jeff King
2012-12-12 12:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-12-12 12:29 ` Jeff King
2012-12-12 17:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-12 22:21 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-12-12 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-12 7:11 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-12-12 12:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-12-19 2:30 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-11-25 11:40 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 17:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 21:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 22:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 13:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 14:35 ` Magnus Bäck
2012-11-27 18:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-27 21:08 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-11-28 0:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-12-03 21:45 ` Philippe Vaucher
2012-12-04 14:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-12-04 14:40 ` Stephen Bash
2012-11-28 0:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 0:51 ` Jeff King
2012-11-28 1:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 1:39 ` Jeff King
2012-11-28 2:06 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 15:39 ` Magnus Bäck
2012-11-28 5:08 ` Joshua Jensen
2012-11-25 8:57 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2012-11-25 10:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 21:41 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2012-11-25 22:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 5:10 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-11-26 8:32 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2012-12-04 15:51 ` Martin Langhoff
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