Hi Patrick, That's good to hear, would there be change to "make menuconfig" with kconfiglib
Thanks Ranga On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:58 AM Patrick Georgi via coreboot < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Historically, coreboot avoided depending on python too much (we got rid of > an entire python based configuration and build system, for example), with > few minor exceptions. > > The main reason has been that while python code is quick to slap together, > it has demonstrated a penchant for breaking in all kinds of mysterious ways > (python 2->3 really was just a slightly bigger instance of what's going on > in python all the time), and its users demonstrate a disregard for their > fellow developers as demonstrated by endless stack traces on trivial errors > (or is the language too complicated to properly catch them all?) > > While probably nice for one-off prototypes, long term maintenance is a > concern: this project has over 20 years of history under its belt, with > more to come. > > That said, python makes its way back into the tree every now and then > (typically as small snippets to compute and add hashes to binaries as > needed by ARM SoCs). Uncanny, but typically not a big deal. > > There are two bigger initiatives proposed that would significantly > increase our python footprint: > 1. Replacing Linux's kconfig with kconfiglib ( > https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/48679) > 2. Using pytest for end-to-end testing utilities ( > https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/57869) > > Compared to the "inject a hash value at a fixed location" scripts, these > would probably be here to stay, and sufficiently integrated that everybody > will have to deal with them. > > People spending time working on python code when it has no chance to land > isn't a good use of their time and we should avoid that in the project. > > People spending time arguing that python shouldn't be used (to avoid > the other outcome) even though the project's culture shifted and is now > accepting Python isn't creating a great community for anybody. > > To avoid these scenarios, could we possibly nail down the policy on python > in coreboot? > > > Regards, > Patrick > -- > Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg > Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891, Sitz der Gesellschaft: > Hamburg > Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado > _______________________________________________ > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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