On Thursday, February 10, 2011 04:24:39 pm Lukas Ocilka wrote:
Dne 10.2.2011 16:02, Robert Schweikert napsal(a):
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 ;) ).
One "yes" for Ruby and "no" for Python is the level of expertise we have here in SUSE.
It took us several months maybe even years to learn Ruby, how long does it take to learn Python or any other language? I mean "learn" in a level that developers do not only need to consult every line of code with documentation but even can think in the level of abstraction that the language provides.
I don't say: Let's use Ruby. What I say is that learning something new takes time. Sometimes a lot of time. Do we have enough time?
A couple of months ago we had enough time to learn ruby instead of sticking to YCP. :-)
Bye Lukas
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