Re: [A-A-P-develop] Idea: shell script for configure

[Bram M. <Br...@mo...>]

William Knight wrote:

> >It might even be possible to include a version of Python.  But this
> >would make the script very big and it probably won't work on every
> >system (requires compiling the C files).  This doesn't sound very
> >attactive.
> 
> From what little I know of Python, it appears to have a huge number of
> attractive features, but that inconvenient size issue is one reason
> why I chose to use the LUA scripting language for one of my own
> projects.  It works well, and is so small, it easily embeds into an
> existing application.
> 
> The values of small and simple should not be underestimated, it's one
> reason why I love VIM in preference to other more powerful tools.
> 
> Perhaps the requirements for A-A-P demand that Python must be used, but
> just thought I'd thow out a little caution against the dangers of
> complexity and bloat.

Python isn't _that_ big, but when a user gets an installation script he
doesn't expect the whole Python interpreter to be included inside of it.

I don't know LUA and I don't think there are more than a few who do.  On
most systems it is not installed.  And I am quite happy with using
Python, thus I don't have a good reason to consider another language
right now.

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