From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:44:25 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121125174425.GC32394@thyrsus.com> References: <20121125024451.1ADD14065F@snark.thyrsus.com> <50B1F684.5020805@alum.mit.edu> <20121125105707.GA25212@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Haggerty , Felipe Contreras , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Lang X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 25 18:45:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TcgH5-0006bI-5r for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:45:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753269Ab2KYRpT (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:45:19 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:43263 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753235Ab2KYRpS (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:45:18 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0166B4065F; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:44:25 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Lang : > You may think that C and Bash are poor choices, but that is what the > community is familar with. I don't think C is a "poor" choice. bash, on the other hand...so many dependencies on tool quirks! > You are far from the first person to say that git should be > re-written (or at least large portions of it) in the > language-of-the-day, and you won't be the last (even, or especially > if it does get re-written in Python ;-) I think you're overinterpreting. Trying for One Big Rewrite in language X is almost never a good idea and I don't advocate it. Encouraging people to migrate pieces as they feel motivated and resdy is a different matter. -- Eric S. Raymond