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Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change

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Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Nov 25, 2012, 05:18 UTC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
> These may apply to other languages as well. Where do we draw a line?

I'm in favor of the general policy of avoiding scripting languages other than the top three most widely deployed. At the moment that means shell, Python, Perl; on present trends, in a few years Perl (dropping in popularity) might be passed by Ruby on the way up.

Or, to put it another way, I'm *not* actually arguing that we ought to encourage extension commands in Guile or Haskell or whatever else the in-language-of-the-week is. It would be bad for maintainability to fragment git's codebase that way.

What I'm arguing is that the tradeoffs within the group {C, shell, Perl, Python} have changed in ways that favor Python as it has become more stable and widely deployed. So instead of grudgingly allowing a few Python extensions in through a back door we ought to be encouraging more use of it.

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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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