On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:
That written in Python, so Python would require Python to build which would require Python to build which would require...

Well, you can't buid a C compiler without a C compiler either (or SOME compiler). And given that you should be able to do cross-compilation for platforms that don't currently have a python build, I'm not sure that's a killer.

It it so wrong that python eats its own dog food in this manner?


It's not as much "Python eat its own dog food" as "cross-compiling natively would be even harder than it is right now."

C compilers are available on virtually every UNIX that's ever been created since the 70's, including AIX, Plan 9, Solaris, etc.

Python? Not as much.
 
-CHB

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