On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 12:02, Larry Price wrote: > On 4 Jan 2002, justin bengtson wrote: > <snip cool distro description>
thanks! > Isn't it a requirement for modern distros to have cool graphical installation > and configuration programs written in python (there's a reason debian depends > on python1.4) also anaconda which runs the RedHat and Mandrake installs. graphical installers are not needed. this is going to be a tarball and utilities to make the tarball into a proper hard-drive-installed OS. i'll most likely write a perl script as an installer, but it'll look pretty ghetto, like the old DOS installer (the "feel" i'm going for...) > But hey it's your distro, if you don't want clean object oriented scripting > languages that include modules specially for reading and rewriting config files > that's your decision ;-) i already have one. it's called "perl". well, i don't know about the modules for reading and writing config files... <perl advocacy> when i was mulling over learning perl or python, one thing that drew me to python was the strict whitespace rules. the theory being that python will _always_ look the same. and then Cory pointed out to me that perl ignores whitespace, so it can be as pretty or as groady as you want. i don't know about current python, but anything that *forces* me to write code in a certain way isn't really my thing. i've learnt to format my code in certain ways to make it more re-usable and readable (to me, at least...) and perl can be very readable, even beautiful, *if* you format it (most perl coders seem to pride themselves on how arcane and unreadable their code looks. which means i tend to write everything myself instead of by example...) with python (as i know it) you have to follow someone else's definition of whitespace. this makes *alot* of difference to me. and, like any language, once you learn a little it becomes far less arcane. python has it's place and i certainly wouldn't criticize it until i had learned it, but right now (and as i'm learning more of it) the "swiss army chainsaw" is doing just fine. </perl advocacy> python does seem to be quite popular, so i may include it anyway, depending on the "package" size (in k). > ciao > larry >
