<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Policy on converting Perl scripts to Python" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130911#c10">Comment # 10</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Policy on converting Perl scripts to Python" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130911">bug 130911</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:sbergman@redhat.com" title="Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>"> Stephan Bergmann</a> <pre>(In reply to Jussi Pakkanen from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=130911#c0">comment #0</a>) > As per the discussion in <a href="https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/89262">https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/89262</a> > > I would like to propose that converting Perl scripts used in Libreoffice can > be ported to Python without needing any special rationale. The reasons for > this are: > > - more people know Python than Perl > - new developers (i.e. anyone under 35) do not know Perl at all > - Python is a lot more readable in any case > - Python has builtin functionality for a lot things where Perl needs to call > external executables (like zip, tar), reducing dependencies > - Converting all Perl code to Python is (in practice) a requirement for > removing Cygwin as a build dependency on Windows I am not convinced that the above benefits necessarily outweigh the costs, though, or that any actual costs of conversion are at least distributed fairly in the developer base. For example, I haven't counted the hours I had to spent on <<a href="https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/13aebf3dc75a73b381fb8d72c9788a8ee5aa911c%5E!/">https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/13aebf3dc75a73b381fb8d72c9788a8ee5aa911c%5E!/</a>> "Missing dependency", <<a href="https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/9831d806ca7223058f74c61f4e1254c84464014d%5E!/">https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/9831d806ca7223058f74c61f4e1254c84464014d%5E!/</a>> "Fix desktop-translate.py", <<a href="https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/009db597027890ade07d31674c740ae0fc432f87%5E!/">https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/009db597027890ade07d31674c740ae0fc432f87%5E!/</a>> "Only process with brand.pl the *.keys and *.desktop files", and <<a href="https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/3f38a57a4ed8515dd145aea46ed697f101409c2f%5E!/">https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/3f38a57a4ed8515dd145aea46ed697f101409c2f%5E!/</a>> "Properly escape desktop file string values" after the change from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=130911#c5">comment 5</a>. (Though to be fair, the last two of those commits helped to find and address pre-existing issues.)</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>