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

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:57:28 +0100

Am 25.11.2012 03:44, schrieb Eric S. Raymond:
> That, among other things, means up-to-date versions of Python are
> ubiquitous unless we're looking at Windows - in which case Perl and
> shell actually become much bigger portability problems.

You seem to ignore that more than a quater of users are on Windows[1].
This is not negligible.

Therefore, we *are* looking at Windows. But where is there a portability
problem? There is a POSIX shell available in all git installations on
Windows. So is Perl. Python is not.

[1]
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2011#10._On_which_operating_system.28s.29_do_you_use_Git.3F

> 4) We should be encouraging C code to move to Python, too.

Absolutely not. To achieve best portability, all code should move to C
instead.

-- Hannes