Robert Neville wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2007 7:17 PM, Jack Schwartz <Jack.A.Schwartz at sun.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> I've posted my notes regarding language considerations for the
>> spring-release of the Distro Constructor, as presented at yesterday's
>> meeting.  Please feel free to comment.
>>
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Constructor/design_notes/Language_Notes/
> 
> Do you intend to embed Python code in packages? If so, how do you want
> to handle incompatibilities between Python releases? Of all languages
> Python is one of the worst if you need binary compatibility (I'd vote
> for ksh93 because it has a stable interface, XML support and is easier
> to debug than Python).

We're not doing scripting in packages anymore; that way lies madness.
Packages contain data, not code.

See pkg-discuss for details...

- Bart

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Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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