From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-26 3fc05cf: Scripts to automate windows binary distribution Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:44:00 +0300 Message-ID: <83o9ov8ez3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20171024173456.23065.52677@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20171024173457.C45BE2031F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87r2trg01m.fsf@gmx.de> <874lqntyfu.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87lgjzfs6c.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508942702 1696 195.159.176.226 (25 Oct 2017 14:45:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:45:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 25 16:44:57 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e7MvF-0007Db-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:44:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7MvM-0002yl-ON for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:44:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49281) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Mum-0002yV-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:44:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Mui-0006oO-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Mui-0006oD-Ch; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:44:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4879 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Muh-0007uq-QF; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:44:12 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lgjzfs6c.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:16:59 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219750 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:16:59 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I started off writing this in bash, but it's such a pain that I ported > > it to python which ended up much nicer. Given that this file has about a > > 15-20 minute run time, this seemed a useful thing to me. As it happens > > it was also easy to make it go quicker which is important because it > > means that I can do the build in the evening, rather than over two > > evenings. > > If it were me, I would have taken Perl, I don't speak Python. Other > people would prefer Guile. > > Before we continue with this, I would like to see a general > agreement. Or at least a go by the maintainers. FWIW, I think the preferred scripting tool in the Emacs project should be Emacs itself. But that's me. I don't see a problem to have scripts in Python under admin/. That stuff is not for the users, it's mainly for Emacs maintainers, so the tools it requires are less important.