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From: | Daniel James |
Subject: | [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to") |
Date: | Fri, 02 Jul 2004 23:35:31 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040306) |
Colin Walters wrote:
The only other actual example of where you think Furth would be useful in tla that I've gleaned from this thread is "project-specific" rules. My answer to that is: "exec". You have yet to rebut that.
For me, the answer is portability. I would want an archive to be usable on any platform, using only tla (or whatever client). This means an embedded language. Eventually there will be a windows client which doesn't require cygwin.
If you decide that using your archive requires perl/python/sh, then I hope you'll be able to just run it from the embedded language. You might even be able to write a script which causes all hooks, or whatever, to search for the scripts. In which case, you're only going to require 1 standard script in the embedded language. So you'll only need to learn to write the config files, which should be no harder than the existing ones.
Personally, I would consider Lua ideal. But I don't have much experience with Scheme, so I'm keeping an open mind.
Daniel
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