Quote: Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote on Sun, 03 October 2010 10:18 > > An old but interresting about interview for Mandriva's tools in perl: > http://www.perl.com/pub/2005/02/24/mandrakelinux.html
Thanks for posting this that interview is very interesting. It would be great if we could have Rafael Garcia-Suarez contributing to Mageia. Does anyone know what he does these days? This quote is particularly interesting: "Rafael: Not all tools were always written in Perl. However using consistently a same language allows to share and reuse libraries across all tools, be it the perl/rpmlib bindings or custom graphical toolboxes. Thus, for example, the OS installer shares code with urpmi and rpmdrake. A scripting language was preferred because of rapidity of development and ease of debug -- attempts at writing rpmdrake in C were painful, although that was before I was hired by Mandrakesoft. Perl was a natural choice since there were already very good in-house skills for it."