Re: FFmpeg considering GIT

Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] writes:

Linus Torvalds writes:

quoted

Finally, it realy _should_ check that the first 7 characters of the commit 
log (the ones it ignores by just asking for substring 7..) are actually 
the exact characters "commit ", but I'll blame my lack of comfort with the 
language again.

I have thought about rewriting it in a different language, but I
haven't found anything that really appeals.  I don't want to go to
C/GTK or C/Qt since that would make it hard to port to Windows and
MacOS AFAIK.  Python/Tk would be a possibility, but I have never
learnt python and I'm actually not all that comfortable with having to
do things the object-oriented way.

Any suggestions?

I've looked at Perl and Python Tk integration in the past; they
take slightly different approaches.  The Perl integration tries
to first libify Tk part to make it less dependent to the host
language, tcl, and then retargets it to a new host language,
Perl.  Compared to that, Python integration was shallower;
calling from Python to Tk and callback from Tk to Python were
done using Tcl as intermediary.  Which looked somewhat hacky but
at the same time cleaner.  From scriptability point of view,
both were much more pleasant to use than tcl.  You would have
object-orientation in the nature of data anyway (e.g. your
commitdata, commitlisted, commitidx and friends will not be
look-up tables keyed with commit object name, rather they will
become attributes to commit objects), so I would expect doing it
in Python+Tk would feel natural.