Question about development languages

[Havoc Pennington]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 03:47, Anthony Saffer wrote:
> I was browsing the Fedora website and noticed that the configuration tools
> are said to be all Python based with a few PyGTK ones. I don't know Python
> at all but am very familiar with Perl and PerlTk. Do the tools HAVE to be
> written in Python or are other languages acceptable?

Tk is unacceptable, it has to be a modern toolkit. Perl is maybe
acceptable (others may disagree) but my concern would be more with
Perl/GTK bindings, I'm not sure what their status is. The pygtk bindings
do require a fair bit of "babysitting" to keep in a good state.

Havoc