Whence Python?
Mike McCarty
Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 21 00:06:18 UTC 2007
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
> The question appears to assume already that this tool is not under
> python already (which I why I said you appear to be confused) and
I dunno why it would, but ok.
> fedora-live cd list would have been more appropriate to ask this
> question anyway. I would suggest doing so for a more detailed answer
> perhaps.
Probably good advice.
[snip]
> The original tool that was based on OLPC build tools was written as
> sheel scripts and wasn't meant to be published. It was used for a early
> release for Fedora Core 6.
Ah, now there's an answer which makes sense.
> Red Hat uses python heavily in many of its tools so there is developer
> comfort and preexisting bindings for most of the tools in Fedora.
Yes, I'm aware that Red Hat is rather Python-centric.
> The partial rewrite in python provides the ability to install to hard
> disk, integration with yum API (python) kickstart (via pykickstart) and
> Anaconda (which is PyGTK).
Thanks.
Mike
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