Hi, On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:43:53PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > Instead adding dependence on Ruby, eh? > > Take some, lose some ;) > > Seriously, though, a dependancy on a mainstream language like > Python/Perl/Ruby/.. isn't a problem since a package is available for > all distributions. However, packages for mainstream languages are > quite often out-of-date or are not supported at all. Seeing a program > being dependant on a non-packaged module is enough for a truckload of > people to not even try it. I have _never_ seen a setup where Ruby was installed by default. Perl always, Python often. Furthermore, my feeling is that we are in the beginning phase of migration from scripting languages (which are good for prototyping) towards plain C. So adding yet another scripting language dependency is a little backwards. Ciao, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html