From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards To: Julian Smart Cc: Gary Thomas , ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] Really dumb newbie question Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:01:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010111100525.A10291@visi.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010111090048.00b64100@larwe.com> <20010111094445.A10226@visi.com> <4.2.0.58.20010111154941.017ee490@pop> X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg00184.html On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:57:32PM +0000, Julian Smart wrote: > >Just curious: what language is being used? I've heard a lot of > >good things about the Python/WxWindows combo.. > > I'm using C++; the main reasons behind this are that (a) Python > would introduce another layer of complexity and possible > configtool support issues; (b) I know C++ so I'll be more > productive, and (c) since the original configtool was written > in C++, quite a bit of code can be lifted with minimal > translation. But yes, a lot of people rave about wxPython. The other part of RedHat has always been pretty big into Python*, and I though maybe that had rubbed off on you guys. Even though most of the Linux boxes probably have Python, many don't don't have wxPython, so it would introduce another layer of installation/support hassles. * IIRC, the RH Linux installers were originally written in Python, rpm was originally in Python, some of the system configuration tools were in Python. -- Grant Edwards grante@visi.com