On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:08:03PM -0400, Mike McLean wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Dennis Gilmore
<dennis(a)ausil.us> wrote:
The daemon distinction might be wrong thing to fixate on here. There
is nothing in that distinction that should exclude python (or most any
language). I think the real factors of concern are: size, complexity,
speed, system load, robustness, and security.
<nod> By and large I agree with you. One thing further to think about is
that
becoming dependent on a tool written in an interpreted language means that
you need to install that language on your system and may become tied to a
specific version of that language. In theory, this shouldn't be worse than
tying yourself to a specific C library but in practice I've found that
parallel installing interpreters and their libraries is a lot less supported
than parallel installing a C lib.
Using python in Fedora Infrastructure probably isn't too big a deal as we
have abundant python programmers here to port things forward if the main
developers don't but it is something to consider with other languages or
in other environments.
-Toshio