On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:13 -0400, Amitabha Roy wrote: > I am curious as to why redhat chose python as the language to code > the user interfaces to many of the system tools. I am assuming > that system-config-network etc, all were written by redhat people > and most of them were written in python (with gtk). > > Was there any discussion as to the benefits of python over other alternatives > (tcl-tk, perl etc) ? Sure, there were discussions, but Python was a natural choice for a number of reasons. A big one was that anaconda already existed and it was a Python/GTK program, so there was already a lot of in-house familiarity with Python and GTK. We wanted to be able to reuse a lot of the code between the installer and the configuration tools, so it made sense to use the same language that the installer was written in. A lot of that code got pulled into the rhpl package which both anaconda and the config tools use. Another reason is that the PyGtk bindings were of high quality and we had people in-house who could quickly fix bugs in the bindings when we hit them (and we did). Cheers, Brent
