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

Tue Oct 5 13:30:30 CEST 2010

2010/10/5 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
+> 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)
+
+php/java have memory management. Python ( which syntax is closer to C
+than perl ) also have memory management. The same for mono ( .Net ),
+vala, ...
+
+>> 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...
+
+sure, but if more people are able to contribute, this could counter
+balanced this fact .
+
+
+
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