On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:31:13PM -0500, Thomas Pegg wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > >Gerard Beekmans wrote: > >>So...what will it take? I'm not that good of a programmer to take on > >>an entire project like this myself. > >> > > > >Neither are the rest of us, which is why alfs stagnated. We could work > >on something in C slowly... Otherwise, perhaps we could start working on > >something in Perl or Python. It's the 'where to start' with this one > >that flusters me. > > C is good. Python might be better (a little easier to work with IMO).
It has been discussed that other things should be dicided before the language, but I can't keep myself from saying this. I'm also interested about alfs, particularly about the package management side of the thing. I'm also interested in helping with the project, though I'm currently very busy (two little children). However, I would suggest that alfs would be written in Ada2005, since it is a safe and efficient language and programs written in it tend to be more maintainable and readable than those written in C. I know the downsides of this, but I feel Ada would be an excellent language for alfs. The downsides I referred to are: everyone should first learn Ada and everyone should install GNAT. Python would be quite a good choice also, particularly for writing user interfaces, but I'm a bit concerned of writing daemons that run as root in an interpreted language. -- Tapio -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
