On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:23:53PM -0800, Chromakode wrote:>
> 1) How do you feel about Python as a language choice? Would Python be a
> good language to code a Drizzle client in?
It could be.
Concerns are:
- python is a bit of a moving target, and some systems have *old*
python.
- py3k is the next thing, but isn't everywhere
- python is not fast, perf critical (bulk loading etc) stuff could be
problematic (but could always c/c++ them)
- pythons threading is utter arse, useless, crap and even more arse.
(i'm talking from a global interpreter lock PoV not a API PoV).
> 2) Would you be unable to use a client written in Python 3? What is the
> oldest version of Python we should support?
Make the client *soo* good that people will install Python 3 to run it :)
> 3) How important a factor is performance in our language choice and
> design of the client? What sort of demand, in terms of network, disk,
> and CPU usage, should we design our client to handle? Is it acceptable
> to choose a language that may be slower in some cases for the task?
I'd want the client:
- to be fast to start
- shouldn't really be a problem... I use BZR a lot, and it's ok.
- fast to use
- reliable
- all dependencies to be apt-gettable
--
Stewart Smith
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