Mailinglist Archive: yast-devel (121 mails)

[Thomas Goettlicher <thomas.goettlicher@xxxxxxx>]

> Anyway, YCP is still going to be around for some time, and adding
> some debugging facilities may be worth the effort. 

Each and every discussion on YaST becomes to a discussion why YCP is a bad 
language. I agree, YCP has its limitations from a programmer point of view. 
For a user it doesn't make any difference which programming or scripting 
language is used as long as YaST installs and configures the user's 
workstation the right way.
From a programmer's perspective it makes a difference. And "just" adding a 
debugger won't make YCP the best language everyone loves, I guess. 
That's the reason why I think we should put YCP into maintenance mode and fix 
critical/major bugs only and focus on real improvements at the same time. 
An interesting research project would be a YaST module which is written in a 
popular language that doesn't use YCP at all. When this works out a lot of 
module authors will also rewrite their YaST modules. And in a couple of 
centuries YaST will be 100% YCP free. :-)

That's my vision.
Thomas

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