[RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage

[Paul Koning]

> On Jul 18, 2018, at 11:13 AM, Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 14:49 +0200, Martin Liška wrote:
> 
>> My question is simple: can we starting using a scripting language like
>> Python and replace usage of the AWK scripts?
> 
> I wonder what will be the expected way to obtain a suitable version of
> Python if one is not available on the build machine? With awk I can
> build it from source pretty much anywhere. Is building newer versions
> of Python on older targets a similarly straightforward process (somehow
> I doubt it)? What about Windows?

It's the same sort of thing: untar the sources, configure, make, make install.  The code is larger than awk but the process is no more difficult.

For Windows there are pre-built kits.  Ditto for a number of other popular operating systems.

	paul