Given that the review tool also requires python, I don't see a big problem
with additional python dependencies.

-Tad

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Alex North <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm considering introducing a python script to the codebase to help keep
> track of cross-module dependencies. We have tools to help this inside
> Google, which is why the libraries code, for example, is not a pile of
> dependency spaghetti. Unfortunately they're not appropriate to use outside.
> We have a couple of options:
>
> - Do everything in Java so we can invoke it from ant
> - Use python (or some other scripting language) for scripting
>
> While possible, I'm not excited about using Java for script-style things.
> We should use a platform-independent scripting language, and Python is
> widely known and understood. This would eventually be a path to replacing
> all the shell scripts and batch files too (though some of the run scripts
> can perhaps move into ant).
>
> Python would only be required for development, not running the server.
> Pre-packaged distros would not require python.
>
> Objections? Opinions?
>
> Alex
>
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