Re: emacs-26 3fc05cf: Scripts to automate windows binary distribution

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Likely I've missed the discussion, but do we want to distribute Python
> scripts with Emacs?

FWIW, I don't see anything wrong with that in general.

I'd rather avoid the use of Python as a requirement for building Emacs
(not because of Python itself, but so as to avoid adding
yet-another-build-dependency), but IIUC the above script is not needed to
build Emacs, so it's OK.

> It's not bike shedding.  It's about future maintainability of Emacs.
> If everybody contributes scripts in her pet language, we will have a
> situation that those scripts cannot be maintained any longer in the
> future.

True to some extent (languages like Perl, Python, Ruby, JS, ... are
sufficiently similar to other languages that it's pretty easy to pick up
such a new language when needed, so "cannot be maintained" is a bit
pessimistic).

Tho here as well, Python is not some random pet language, so I think we
can decide that it's OK.


        Stefan