[Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

Wed Oct 10 17:31:09 CEST 2012

2012/9/30 Steven Tucker <tuxta2 at gmail.com>
+>
+> If it was my language of choice I would be writing it in C++. It was 100%
+> due to discussions on the list and in IRC that led to writing it in Perl.
+> As noted, I have previously never written any Perl, and so it would not
+> have been my first or even second choice, I did it purely because of the
+> feedback I received from the Mageia community.
+>
+Perl is a dead-end, and most of the code is horrible even by perl
+standards, we've been started on rewriting a lots of the code for drakx in
+mandriva, some of the progress has been rather slow, but things are
+moving at least, where I've already rewritten much of the perl specific
+parts of it has been rewritten in C & shell so far, with some of the tools
+to generate the installer isos being rewritten in python so far.
+
+What I'm intending to target is more of some new libraries for the purpose
+(ie. the backend), preferrably written in C++, whileas higher level
+functionality such as gui matters would have ie. some python bindings
+provided as well.
+
+It's not really *that* much code that needs to be rewritten, the worst part
+is to try dechiffer and wasting more time spent on trying to understand the
+code than just writing the code once you know how to do it.
+
+The drakx tools's perl code should really be considered as legacy, I can't
+think of anyone who has deeper insight on it who'd ever find anything but
+som sentimental value from it..
+
+If you'd have any interest  in any of this, don't hesitate to get in touch.
+:)
+
+PS: considering your drakx branch is a fork of the original upstream drakx
+project and that these two have heavily diverged since, established
+etiquete would dictate that the forket project should change..
+
+--
+Regards,
+Per Øyvind
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