garbage collection status

Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com
Fri Feb 4 04:43:20 UTC 2011


On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:57:20 +0100
Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> wrote:

> > Jim, did you think about rewriting iwhd in Python? It's not that big.
> 
> Or ruby.  Yes, definitely.  And Jeff before me.
> The idea has been hovering in the background from day 1.

On second thought, maybe we're too deep in. Doing 50 lines per day
puts the required time into the ballpark of 200 days. Almost a year
with weekneds, basically. Yes, I discounted the generated files.
But this also reminded me that we have YACC component, which would
need to be interfaced to Python.

-- Pete


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