Volker A. Brandt wrote: > Shawn Walker writes: >> Volker A. Brandt wrote: >>> Yes, Sun has made two big mistakes: Implementing IPS in Python, and >>> ditching scripting capability in the packages. I'm sure these seemed >> I continue to see assertions that pkg(5) should not have been written in >> python with little justification for this claim. > > Hmmm... I will readily admit that you're working on fixing the > performance issues, and improving overall efficiency, so the situation > is better now than it was when pkg(5) was first released into the wild. > > However, there is also the fact that Sun had already committed to > a scripting language, Perl. There was a statement that Perl was a core > part of Solaris and would always be present on the miniroot. (I am > not saying that Perl would be markedly faster here.)
And there can be only one? Doesn't that mean perl was also a mistake since Sun had already committed to sh as a scripting language available on the miniroot? (Just taking your argument to its logical conclusion - I'm a heavy perl user myself, so think both perl & python have their place in the core OS.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org