On 02/10/2011 06:42 AM, Gabriele Mohr wrote:
Am 09.02.2011 15:07, schrieb Martin Vidner:
Amaranth: Why Ruby ==================
- popularity among current and potential contributors where Ruby wins the SUSE WebYaST people and other SUSE web/Rails developers
This is a strong argument for me - I vote for Ruby. It's also much easier to switch between teams if the same language is used.
But it also constrains the implementation to the 4 walls of SUSE. As was pointed out on this thread other distributions predominantly use Python for system configuration tasks. Yes there are unanswered questions about separation of UI code from code that actually fiddles the settings in the config files, i.e. MVC paradigm adherence. But it might be easier to get involved in the existing projects and drive UI separation, if necessary, than to start from scratch with Yet another Setup Tool language (pun intended ;) ). Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Novell-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rschweikert@novell.com rschweikert@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 Novell Making IT Work As One -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org