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

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2018-07-27 at 14:53 +0000, Michael Matz wrote:
> perl is currently included in the bootstrap set.  There's no reason
> why python couldn't be included as well,

If Perl is already in the bootstrap set and the awk scripts are hard to
maintain then why can't the awk scripts be rewritten in Perl instead of
Python?  That would avoid adding more prerequisites and surely Perl is
sufficiently expressive that it can perform these translations just as
well as Python.

I understand some people have an issue with Perl's maintainability but
just because you CAN write difficult to maintain code in Perl doesn't
mean you HAVE to.

I've seen plenty of difficult to understand and maintain Python
scripting... just saying "use Python" is not a panacea for
supportability problems.