Whence Python?

[Mike McCarty]

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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