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

[Joseph Myers]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Paul Smith wrote:

> 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.

At least in the glibc community we find the current developers generally 
prefer Python for such code, so using it in place of Perl (or Awk) works 
better for maintainability now.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com