Le 25/09/2010 14:22, Remy CLOUARD a écrit :
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Many end user tools are developped in python for this reason, because
python has the reputation of being easy to learn (though arguably perl
or ruby do their job well in that area too). Two well-known examples
in these area are networkmanager and system-config-printer.
What is means for Mageia ? Nothing for the moment, there are so many
urgent thinks to do ;) But in the future I would like to help to
promote high level language programming in Mageia community.
I suggest you to add yourself in this page :
http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=packaging
add some entries in the language list.
We need java experts, and vala and D are interesting too :-)
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I didn't mention python although I know it is used a lot by Ubuntu dev.
because, despite being a powerful language that I really appreciate, it
is a script language. It means that if there is an error in some part of
the code that is not executed during the test, you can't see it until
someone falls into. This kind of risk is dramatically reduced when using
a compiled language.
Ok I will add myself in packaging team, but I will really need to be
trained to be useful.
Cheers
Farfouille
