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<saying who="rindolf">sussman: for the record, I think the
build system is the ultimate proof that python code
can be as bad as Perl one.</saying>
<me_is who="clkao">giggles</me_is>
<saying who="jackr">hehe</saying>
<saying who="rindolf">hopes he's not starting a flamewar</saying>
<saying who="clkao">btw, freebsd svn port maintainer was
complaining about unable to do --with-swig specifying
only perl or pythong bindings to build..</saying>
<me_is who="cmpilato">notes that the topic of this channel
is Subversion.</me_is>
<saying who="clkao">(so he refused to include the option
for building either bindings in the port!)</saying>
<saying who="rindolf">I once saw a perl5 code written in
perl4 style. Now that was hideous.</saying>
<saying who="fitz">complicated != bad</saying>
<saying who="fitz">"Building is complicated--that's why
build systems are complicated." --kfogel</saying>
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<channel>#svn</channel>
<network>Freenode</network>
<tagline>Discussing the Subversion Build System</tagline>
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