Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use meson_options.txt in the configure script

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 10:14, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
> IIRC while Perl is perfect for parsing, the maintenance cost is too
> high. The git-forge / meson switch proved next-gen contributors are
> more at ease with Python.

That seems a bit strong to me. But I would say that for code where
most people touching it are non-language-experts who need to just
occasionally dip in to it to fix a problem, rather than spending
most of their time working on that code, Python is easier to
understand than Perl is. Plus we have more Python than Perl; so we
should probably prefer Python in new scripts for the project.

-- PMM