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GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resignsGNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resignsPosted Dec 26, 2012 0:40 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns by marcH Parent article: GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns
The problem is - that approach fails very fast. Especially with complex software that needs to do something different from processing text files using pipes.
For example, look at Mesa3D or GIMP.
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GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns Posted Dec 26, 2012 15:46 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
Thanks for the examples.
I had a 2 minutes look at a tutorial explaining how to write a GIMP plugin in Python and saw nothing wrong with it. It even looked cool. When and how does this fail?
GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns Posted Dec 26, 2012 16:37 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Yup. I knew you'd say this. How about writing the bulk of GIMP itself in Python?
We actually have an example of this - it's called 'Blender'. If you look inside it then you'll see quite a lot of horror when their developers simply had to do some cross-layer hacks to achieve tolerable performance. Because even as a thin glue layer Python is not fast enough.
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