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

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2012, 14:19 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s0rcy6OfMPM+8BhQy0DbxRLBHEsraHw0u4oAZzh5euTzg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> Also, you are ignoring all the advantages that shell has and python does not.
>
> Out of curiosity, can you list the advantages? From what I gathered:
>
> - no need to install bash

Unless you are in Windows or OS X. OS X has a shell, but not bash.

> - git contributors are more used to bash

I don't see this as a big advantage.

> - there's only one "version" of bash (no real need to handle different
> versions compared to py26, py27, etc)

This one is.

The language doesn't change much from different versions of bash either way.

- the language is part of POSIX

Which means you don't need bash, you can use dash, or zsh, or many other shells.

- the language is simple

It's so simple it's used in shells.

- no need for extensions

All you need is the shell binary, that's it.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras