Include Python support in the CLI by default?

Lukas Krejci lkrejci at redhat.com
Thu Jul 12 20:21:47 UTC 2012


On Thursday, July 12, 2012 22:18:39 Heiko W.Rupp wrote:
> Am 12.07.2012 um 21:54 schrieb Lukas Krejci:
> > so now that we support Python as a CLI language, do you think it would be
> > worth including that support by default in the CLI? The jar is kinda hefty
> 
> How would the user switch to Python then?

rhq-cli.sh --language=python

> 
> > 10MBs because it embeds the whole jython but on the other hand it does
> > bring a whole new language to RHQ ;)
> 
> I think this is a good idea as Python is much used inside Fedora, RHEL and
> probably other distributions, so the number of people understanding it is
> quite large.
> > Or do you think it'd be better to add another section to RHQ's downloads
> > section in the UI to offer different language support modules that the
> > users could then install?
> 
> The cli lives in rhq's download section, so the server install would grow in
> both cases.
> We could offer a download space, where this lives, so the user can in the
> existing cli say "instal Python" which would get Python and make it
> available. Perhaps also Ruby later.


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