On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:05:15PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > What was the exact reason switching to phython and can we do the same in
> > perl?
>
> It was a shell script (using awk) before it was pythonised. The
> motivation was correct functionality when cross-building on a
> 32-bit host. Here's the commit:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/28hmoc
If you read the comments in the phyton file is says:
+# Based on a shell/awk script originally written by Harish Patil,
+# which was converted to Perl by Matthew Chapman, which was converted
+# to Python by David Mosberger.
So somewhere a perl variant has existed.
Sam
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