On Fri, 31 May 2013 17:57:56 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
On Friday 2013-05-31 10:03, David Majda wrote:
as some may know, since January few SUSE developers in Prague are working on automatically translating YaST codebase from YCP (an old proprietary language) into Ruby. [...] For more details about the plan and reasoning behind it, see my e-mail on yast-devel:
Why exactly Ruby? (No info was found on that within the message and the one linked to in it.)
Hi Jan, this is good question. Answer is in different thread on yast-devel as we discussed it before for previous attempt Amaranth [0] and [1], which mvidner started, but we lately decided to go slightly different direction. So we just took result of why ruby discussion and start coding it smaller step that is convertor from ycp to ruby. And last but not least, convert well known language to another well known language latter if there is strong reason for it is much easier like ruby to python compiler [2]. I hope it will answer your question. Don't hesitate to ask if something is not clear, but unless there is strong reason to not use ruby we will use it as it is the easiest way for us to convert ycp to modern well known language. Josef [0] http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2011-02/msg00040.html [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2011-02/msg00041.html [2] https://github.com/whymirror/unholy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org