[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [RFC][Patch] Reduce bandwith by using deltas

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:37:59PM -0500, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> Mike Kaufman wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:24:17PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> >
> >>Maybe not, I am not sure. But at least you do not require freeciv coders
> >>to know Python... and a programming language you don't know is never
> >>pretty.
> >
> >
> >I am entirely against a solution which requires an additional prerequisite
> >to compiling freeciv, be it either perl or python.
> 
> The current system (packet_lsend.pl) uses perl, but does not add an 
> additional prerequisite since the file is pre-generated and held in CVS.
> 
> It does seem inconsistent to me to use both perl and python for this, 
> though.  Just pick one and stick to it - it'll make the code much easier 
> to maintain.

No problem switching to python for everything.

Hell the generator I write works with python 1.5
  Python 1.5.2 (#1, Aug 25 2000, 09:33:37)  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (experimental)] 
on linux-i386
and also with version 2.2 (the latest)
  Python 2.2 (#1, Mar 17 2002, 16:39:48)
  [GCC 3.0.3] on linux2
And "surprisingly" it also produces the same results. So any modern
(never seen a version earlier 1.5) python version should work. I agree
that this doesn't solve the maintaining part.

        Raimar

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