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<H1>[Mageia-dev] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github</H1>
<B>Fabrice Facorat</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 5 13:30:30 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>2010/10/5 Thierry Vignaud <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com</A>>:
><i> On 3 October 2010 09:58, Fabrice Facorat <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">fabrice.facorat at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>>><i> Specifying what exactly is wrong is an essential issue here:
</I>>>><i> - Just "perl is hard to understand" isn't a problem for users, users
</I>>>><i> don't code it.
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</I>>><i> but for dev and potential contributor this increase the antry barrier
</I>>><i> for contribution
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</I>><i> No. You are just moving the entry barrier against another dev group
</I>><i> (those who would know perl but not eg C).
</I>><i> And because of the manual memory management of the language you're
</I>><i> promoting, you would both:
</I>><i> - increase the actual barrier entry (need to understand how to
</I>><i> properly do mem management, ...)
</I>><i> - introduce new classes of bugs (and among them a lot of security ones
</I>><i> (overwriting stack and the like)
</I>
php/java have memory management. Python ( which syntax is closer to C
than perl ) also have memory management. The same for mono ( .Net ),
vala, ...
>><i> sure. But do Mandriva still have enough man power to maintain so many tools ?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> That's a nop argument. Rewriting from scratch needs more manpower
</I>><i> whatever is the number of tools...
</I>
sure, but if more people are able to contribute, this could counter
balanced this fact .
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