WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch rfc 1/3] xen arch header rework.

To: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch rfc 1/3] xen arch header rework.
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:50:01 +0100
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:50:30 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <e08041f30610110340m6df11043pf7c87c40d675cc90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thread-index: AcbtIwA4PsjJc1kWEduc9gAX8io7RQ==
Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch rfc 1/3] xen arch header rework.
User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620
On 11/10/06 11:40, "Jacob Gorm Hansen" <jacobg@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I like this approach (although I don't like Perl, but at least it's better
>> than reams of bash, which is definitely the pits ;-). The Solaris guys won't
>> like the gcc attributes, but they can add some flexibility to the script to
>> target the pragmas/extensions of their own compiler.
> 
> Xen seems committed to using Python already (not that I am too
> thrilled about that, but at least Python code is readable to the
> occasional hacker), could we try to limit the amount of arcane
> scripting languages that have to be supported when building Xen, i.e.
> not add Perl as a build-time dependency?

I'd certainly rather see Python used, unless there's a really good reason
not to. I'm not sure if building Linux already requires Perl? It looks to me
like it doesn't, unless you build the raid6 drivers.

 -- Keir



_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel