Perl or Python?

[Rajinder Yadav]

Marc,

thanks again for pointing out 0install. I guess I could give it a trial run and see how easy it is to create a package for CodeBlock that I just got build for my system. This C++ IDE had many addition supporting software I needed to build. So if I can roll my currently CodeBlock install up very easily and install it on a virgin CentOS, that would be a good test.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Marc Lanctot <lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Marc Lanctot <lanctot at ualberta..ca>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Perl or Python?
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 5:09 PM
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:46:47 -0700
> (PDT)
> Rajinder Yadav <devguy-DaQTI0RpDDMAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I came across this on the Python page:
> > 
> > "Because of its more general data types Python is
> applicable to a
> > much larger problem domain than Awk or even Perl, yet
> many things are
> > at least as easy in Python as in those languages."
> > 
> > The reason I am asking is if I wanted to write my own
> simple package
> > manager for the Linux distro I am planning to created
> from scratch I
> > would like to have a script language to do all this in
> to automate
> > steps, etc.
> > 
> > Yes I am well aware there are package managers out
> there for me to
> > use.
> 
> You know APT is coded in C++, right? Yum is coded in
> Python. If it's
> between Python and Perl, for this particular tool I'd
> recommend Perl. I
> could be slightly biased because I find Yum so darn slow. I
> don't know
> if that's because Python is slower than Perl in general,
> though I feel
> that might be true. 
> 
> By the way, what is your incentive for making yet another
> package
> manager (yapm?). If you have no good reason to reinvent the
> wheel, I
> suggest you consider using Zero Install:
> 
>   http://0install.net/
>   http://0install.net/matrix.html
> 
> I'm still waiting to hear of a distro that uses it as its
> main package
> manager :)
> 
> Marc
> 
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