[Mageia-dev] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

Tue Oct 5 13:06:44 CEST 2010

On 3 October 2010 09:58, Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.facorat at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> Specifying what exactly is wrong is an essential issue here:
+>> - Just "perl is hard to understand" isn't a problem for users, users
+>> don't code it.
+>
+> but for dev and potential contributor this increase the antry barrier
+> for contribution
+
+No. You are just moving the entry barrier against another dev group
+(those who would know perl but not eg C).
+And because of the manual memory management of the language you're
+promoting, you would both:
+- increase the actual barrier entry (need to understand how to
+properly do mem management, ...)
+- introduce new classes of bugs (and among them a lot of security ones
+(overwriting stack and the like)
+
+>> - Not being used by other distros is again not a problem, each distro
+>> has native tools that no other distros use (as misc said a couple of
+>> emails up)
+>
+> sure. But do Mandriva still have enough man power to maintain so many tools ?
+
+That's a nop argument. Rewriting from scratch needs more manpower
+whatever is the number of tools...
+