[webkit-dev] Script programming language: Perl, Python, or Ruby?

[Eric Seidel]

Here are the list of files in the project which use ruby:

Scripts/check-for-inappropriate-files-in-framework:#!/usr/bin/env ruby
Scripts/check-for-webkit-framework-include-consistency:#!/usr/bin/env ruby
Scripts/clean-header-guards:#!/usr/bin/ruby
Scripts/roll-over-ChangeLogs:#!/usr/bin/env ruby
iExploder/htdocs/iexploder.cgi:#!/usr/bin/ruby
iExploder/htdocs/iexploder.rb:        # These if statements are so
that mod_ruby doesn't have to reload the files
iExploder/htdocs/webserver.rb:#!/usr/bin/ruby
iExploder/tools/lasthit.rb:#!/usr/bin/ruby
iExploder/tools/osx_last_crash.rb:#!/usr/bin/ruby
iExploder/tools/showtest.rb:#!/usr/bin/ruby

-eric

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Sam Weinig <sam.weinig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I seemed to have missed this thread.  Please do not rewrite scripts
> just to rewrite them in a language you like. WebKit's dependency on Ruby is
> here to stay. Just because python is common at Google does not make it
> universal.
> -Sam
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:48 PM, TAMURA, Kent <tkent at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks.
>> So porting PrettyPatch to Python will make good benefit and should have no
>> drawbacks.  I should go ahead.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 09:21, William Siegrist <wsiegrist at apple.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 31, 2010, at 4:43 PM, TAMURA, Kent wrote:
>>>
>>> >   Can we run python scripts on bugs.webkit.org server?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> TAMURA Kent
>> Software Engineer, Google
>>
>>
>>
>>
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