new sysinstall

[David Leimbach]

On Sep 1, 2003, at 4:34 PM, Bill Huey (hui) wrote:

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:23:15AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
    If RedHat has been using Python to good effect for system 
utilities and
    sysop supporting scripting then that is a good recommendation for
    Python, and from other messages posted to this list I no longer 
worry
    so much about version mismatches between base and 
package-installed
    Python revs.  All of our own scripts would explicitly path to a 
versioned
    python (e.g. #!/usr/local/bin/python2.2 or something similar)
Python is very good and has very good support.
Yep.  Which is why I think we could go with it. [I am warming up to PHP 
too though]


    In fact, so many people seem more familiar with Python then Ruby 
that I
    think we should discard Ruby from our list of possibilities and 
move
    Python up a notch.
Ruby is a great system, even more regular than Python, but the
library support is somewhat sparce. Also portupgrade is written
in Ruby.
I can't think of any other significant piece of code written in Ruby. :)

Bit torrent is written in Python... Top that!  [actually please 
don't... I am stating in jest]

Anaconda is a pretty rich Python based installer for the Red Hat linux 
distribution and
allows things like kickstart to happen [which is used a lot on 
clusters] sounds like we
could do something similar with Python and get DragonflyBSD into 
clustering...

Really... I don't care if we use a language we create ourselves for the 
installer.  As long
as its flexible enough to get the job done and meet all the 
requirements.

It's really a toss up, as it concerns programming methodology
between the two for me, so the determining factor should be
the specific issues involved in implementing this. It might be
that a specific kind of library support would tip one over the
other. I suggest keeping it in the arsenal of possibilities,
but with a preference for Python.
Yes ... it always boils down to this.... requirements.  Let's be 
engineers about this :).

bill