From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17870 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2018 21:28:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 17857 invoked by uid 89); 18 Jul 2018 21:28:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=clunky, H*r:sk:segher@ X-HELO: gate.crashing.org Received: from gate.crashing.org (HELO gate.crashing.org) (63.228.1.57) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:28:43 +0000 Received: from gate.crashing.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w6ILSepa030484; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:28:40 -0500 Received: (from segher@localhost) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id w6ILSdr8030483; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:28:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 22:42:00 -0000 From: Segher Boessenkool To: Richard Biener Cc: Martin =?utf-8?B?TGnFoWth?= , GCC Development Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage Message-ID: <20180718212839.GW16221@gate.crashing.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00271.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:51:36AM +0200, Richard Biener wrote: > We already conditionally require Perl for building for some targets so I wonder > if using perl would be better ... At least perl is GPL (Python is not). What would the advantage of using Python be? I haven't heard any yet. Awk may be a bit clunky but at least it is easily readable for anyone. Segher