On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 22:13:44 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > Finally, it realy _should_ check that the first 7 characters of the commit > > log (the ones it ignores by just asking for substring 7..) are actually > > the exact characters "commit ", but I'll blame my lack of comfort with the > > language again. > > I have thought about rewriting it in a different language, but I > haven't found anything that really appeals. I don't want to go to > C/GTK or C/Qt since that would make it hard to port to Windows and C/Gtk would be perfectly portable. As would C++/Gtk, Python/Gtk and Perl/Gtk. C++/Qt4 would be perfectly portable as well, so choose whichever you find easier to work with. For C/C++ they are on par, for Python/Perl/Ruby I think Gtk has better bindings. > MacOS AFAIK. Python/Tk would be a possibility, but I have never > learnt python and I'm actually not all that comfortable with having to > do things the object-oriented way. I would actually recommend against Python/Tk, because (tried it) py2exe does not work seem to work with it, so you couldn't wrap it to easy to install binary for windows folks. I did not try Python/Gtk, but I expect you might have better luck with it (it's the Tcl/Tk interpreter that causes problems). -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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