On 05/07/01 Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:03:59AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> >Can you compare Perl speed to Python?
> >Just curious, have no prior knowledge on this.
>
> Can you? Of course you can. Has someone? Very probably, although I
> can't recall seeing an instance off
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:03:59AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
>Can you compare Perl speed to Python?
>Just curious, have no prior knowledge on this.
Can you? Of course you can. Has someone? Very probably, although I
can't recall seeing an instance off-hand.
"Compare Perl speed to Python" is pre
I created a test program to do fibonacci series recursively in Perl, Python,
Scheme, Lisp, C, and OCaML. Needless to say, OCaML kicked ass ;) But between
Perl and Python, Python performed better by about 20%. On the other hand,
fibonacci series is a bit of a different application than whatever ta
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:00:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote:
> > > > It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested
> > > > one yet.
> > > > I doubt there is one.
> > >
> > > I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines d
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:00:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote:
> > > It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one
> > > yet.
> > > I doubt there is one.
> >
> > I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines die
> > of an h
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote:
> > > It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one
> > > yet.
> > > I doubt there is one.
> >
> > I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines die
> > of an heart-attack whenever a
Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote:
> > It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one
> > yet.
> > I doubt there is one.
>
> I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines die
> of an heart-attack whenever an installation task has to occur...
Bollocks. Prof
> It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one yet.
> I doubt there is one.
I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines die
of an heart-attack whenever an installation task has to occur...
Wolfgang
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:04:12PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> debconf. There has been discussion of making perl not required, but it
> remains
> to be seen if that will happen.
It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one yet.
I doubt there is one.
Hamish
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On Wed, 2 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
>Simon Richter wrote:
>> I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions
>> have arised:
>
>That's "debconfiscated"[1].
No, that's what lilo did to install-mbr...
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Simon Richter wrote:
> I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions
> have arised:
That's "debconfiscated"[1].
> - At the start of my config script, I import all settings from the real
> configuration file, if it exists. For some settings, this is trivial,
> for
On Tue, 1 May 2001, David Whedon wrote:
>...
> In that case it would be that fact that perl-base is 'priority required' that
> allows you to avoid a dependancy on perl rather than the fact that you are
> using
>...
It's not the 'priority required' but the "Essential: yes" of perl-base
that makes
> > for some, I need rather complex text processing. Since perl isn't
> > essential, writing the script in perl would make the package depend on
> > perl while this is unnecessary for normal operation. Would this be
> > acceptable or should I find a better solution?
> >
>
> If you
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> If you use debconf you are using perl (-: of course awk is your friend and
> mine.
Hrm, since that stuff will also tend to get ugly when written in awk, I
think I'm going to use perl then.
Simon
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On 01-May-2001 Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions
> have arised:
>
> - At the start of my config script, I import all settings from the real
> configuration file, if it exists. For some settings, this is trivial,
> for s
Hi,
I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions
have arised:
- At the start of my config script, I import all settings from the real
configuration file, if it exists. For some settings, this is trivial,
for some, I need rather complex text processing. Since per
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