Re: [IBMiOSS] OPS Version Information

Out of curiosity, what made you (or whoever wrote it) choose Python as the

scripting language?

Tony isn't on this forum to my knowledge so I will give my perception and
he can correct me if I'm wrong. Tony likes Python for automating
system/admin things. I am learning to like Python. I wish it could have
been written in shell to keep the base with less dependencies. But there's
also the following observation that makes it a very viable option.

One observation: It's the only scripting language that can be
~easily/automatically~ downloaded and used on IBM i. Node.js requires
5733OPS. Ruby requires submitting a download request to PowerRuby. PHP
requires a sign-up/download similar to PowerRuby. Technically Ruby can
also be downloaded from perzl, and I've done that, but there's more to
doing Ruby on i than just what Perzl has.




Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:31 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Your script gave me an idea based on some work Tony Cairns did with
ibmichroot. Basically there is a new way of generating(n1)
chroot_xxxxx.lst files by using the PTF info files (.qptfinf) and a

python

script(n2).

n2 -
https://bitbucket.org/litmis/ibmichroot/src/master/chroot/

gen_chroot_OPS_lst

Interesting. Out of curiosity, what made you (or whoever wrote it)
choose Python as the scripting language? Obviously, I don't think this
is a bad choice, but I'm wondering what Python has that more familiar
languages (to you or Tony or whoever else) don't have. Or is the
author of that script really most comfortable with Python after all?

John Y.
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