Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 14th Sep 2007 23:08 UTC
As a system administrator, you run across numerous challenges and problems. Managing users, disk space, processes, devices, and backups can cause many system administrators to lose their hair, good humor, or sanity. Shell scripts can help, but they often have frustrating limitations. This is where a full-featured scripting language, such as Python, can turn a tedious task into an easy one. Python is a scripting language that looks like it was made for system administrators.
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2006-01-03
"When portage was getting more complex, python wasn't the language to do the job anymore. A static typing, compiled language would be better. more error checking and compiled validation."
Wait, we are talking about a package manager here, aren't we? Why on earth would a package manager require the extra effort of developing in a compiled language (C/C++) just to get a performance boost? I mean... how can a package manager be performance critical?
I don't know portage, but I would bet the problem is in the design and not in the language... yum used to be _brutally_ slow too, and it is much faster now, even though it keeps being Python. Not downloading tons of crap every time it is invoked helps a lot...
And it's just a package manager...