https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130911
Bug ID: 130911
Summary: Policy on converting Perl scripts to Python
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
As per the discussion in https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/89262
I would like to propose that converting Perl scripts used in Libreoffice can be
ported to Python without needing any special rationale. The reasons for this
are:
- more people know Python than Perl
- new developers (i.e. anyone under 35) do not know Perl at all
- Python is a lot more readable in any case
- Python has builtin functionality for a lot things where Perl needs to call
external executables (like zip, tar), reducing dependencies
- Converting all Perl code to Python is (in practice) a requirement for
removing Cygwin as a build dependency on Windows
In practice this would mean that merge requests that convert Perl to Python
could just have this in their commit messages:
See tdf#XXXXX for motivation.
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