>> What's the motivation to use Python for all of this?
>
> What's the motivation to use sh for all this?
>
> You can certainly make it shorter with shell, but will it be
> significantly simpler, easier to understand or easier to maintain?
>
> I decided for Python in this case, because recursion seems like
> something I don't want to do in a sh script.
I agree with Han-Wen.
Jonas, the rule is very simple: Use whatever you think is best. A
contributor invests time and has to make sure that the code works and
is well-documented. But why should we enforce a certain programming
language (of the ones we already use, that is)?
For example, if I contributed a more complicated script, it would be
written in Perl...
Werner
