Hi, On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:56 AM, TAMURA, Kent <tkent@chromium.org> wrote:

Do we have any recommendation of programming language for scripts such as WebKitTools/Scripts? It seems new scripts are written by Python and Ruby code is very rare.

Is it reasonable to port a Ruby script to Python? I tried to port PrettyPatch.rb to Python in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43617 in order to remove Ruby dependency for many developers and buildbots. However bdash objected it.

Why Ruby to Python? There are also Perl scripts in WebKitTools/Scripts. Could you explain the benefits of converting Ruby scripts to Python? I agree that having to install Ruby, Python, and Perl is a burden for many Windows developers but most of us use Mac / Linux for WebKit development anyways. - Ryosuke