On Friday 01 September 2006 07:08 am, Dave Miner wrote: > But to go back to part of Alan's mail, the current install actually only > uses Java for the GUI; everything else is in C or shell scripts. I'm > doubtful that we'll continue to use the existing SDK for the GUI in > implementing the new one, but there are many factors to be weighed in > making that decision. I've no experience with Python, for example, but > I'd be open to considering its use if it provides the capabilities we > need. An interesting project for someone might be to prototype up a > Python UI that generates Jumpstart profiles, for example.
I'm glad to hear that you'll consider something like Python, although I think there would need to be some very compelling reason for it, given that Java is such a rich language, and Sun has announced they will open source Java, and I think that will change the way the open source communities adopt Java, and, and, and...(hard to believe I'm kinda standing up for Java;-). There's some really cool stuff going on with Java. It we can find a way to leverage that stuff, seems to be to our advantage. OTOH, there's some really cool stuff going on around Python, in the open source communities. I saw a compiler to output java bytecode, from Python sources. Go figure... -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group
