Messages in this thread | | | From | "Samium Gromoff" <> | Subject | Re: Will 2.6 require Python for any configuration ? (CML2) | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2001 01:12:33 +0400 |
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> The main reason to include it, is that that's what it was done in. > If you go back and read the archives, ESR goes over why all sorts of > other languages wouldn't work as easily. in such cases the solution is to elaborate, and not to leave things to decay.
> That wasn't my point at all. My point was that if you're somehow > transfering the 21mb source .tar.bz2'ed, you can also stand to transport > the 4mb of python 2.0.1 source, tar.gz'ed over as well. In other words, > having to bring python over any of the methods that Jes mentioned isn't > any more painful than the kernel source. It's roughly the size of a couple > of vmlinux'es. i was sarcastic here. actually the fact is that 4MB of tarred sources is more than 10 .c files doing the same thing 1.5x times faster.
> Have you tried cml2 on your p166? ESR went and did much speed tweaking of > the code about 6 months ago it seems like and managed to please some of the > people using a low-end pentium. Building a kernel on a 386 isn't approcaching > tolerable right now anyhow. Someone pointed out today or yesterday it takes > ~10 days. it is not an excuse to make things even worser.
> Python is no harder to maintain then C. actually i meant that "i hardly can believe that c in such task is harder to maintain than python".
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cheers,
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