On 31/05/13 17:57, Jan Engelhardt 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.)
It satisfies that is a popular scripting language with a decent community and tools around it, and it happens at the same time that people working with YaST and other projects around SUSE and openSUSE are very proficient with it. Probably python would have been another option. Lot of developers are also very proficient with it, but it would not make a big difference. -- Duncan Mac-Vicar P. - http://www.suse.com/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org