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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] removing python
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:34:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BF01F33CB69E812F3D3AB38A13DD2768@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKeBiN7XkaSSdin0n-qq2nHxRt4+Lmiyi3e19Ex+nbwigOx7XQ@mail.gmail.com>

Quoth Alexander McLin <alex.mclin@gmail.com>:
> I probably missed the memo but what’s the back story behind removing
> Python and migrating away from hg?
> 
> I’m a newcomer so I don’t yet know what’s problematic about using hg
> or Python on Plan9.

It was on the order of a million lines of
code. The python version was from 2007,
and the hg version was from 2009. And while
the hg protocol is sufficiently compatible,
modern python code won't run oun our python.
It's dead weight to support hg, and nothing
else.

Contrast: Our implementation of git is 8784
lines of code (at the moment), and doesn't
have any external dependencies that we need
to fight.

And it means we're hosting git on plan9,
instead of on hg on unix.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-14 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-14  0:09 ori
2021-06-14  0:19 ` Stephen M. Jones
2021-06-14  1:16 ` Stanley Lieber
2021-06-14  1:52   ` ori
2021-06-14  2:37     ` Stanley Lieber
2021-06-14 15:16       ` Alexander McLin
2021-06-14 16:25         ` Alex Musolino
2021-06-14 16:34         ` ori [this message]
2021-06-14 20:06           ` Daniel C.
2021-06-14 20:34             ` ori

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