[Development] Buddy group to help new contributors

Christian Tismer-Sperling tismer at stackless.com
Fri Jan 5 16:28:04 CET 2024


On 05.01.24 12:15, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday, 5 January 2024 06:00:12 -03 Elias Steurer via Development wrote:
>> but let's go back to the discussion about why we need perl in the first
>> place and why wikis are bad 😁
> 
> Because we need a more powerful scripting language than shell or batch files
> for many things. Many of the scripts in question were started by me and I use
> Perl. I will not write in another language. Some others are so old that they
> predate Python's very existence.
> 
> If someone wants to take over and write in CMake or in C++, be my guest.
> That's what Alexey did for the syncqt.pl script that predated even me. As far
> as I know, that removed the dependency on Perl to compile Qt or to contribute.
> What's left that you're seeing?


If the PySide group allows it, I'd be happy to port some perl
scripts to python 😉

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