The plan is to start working towards a rewrite of xdg-utils in python, focusing on the really bad bits such as dealing with desktop files and mime handling.
In this hackweek, I want to split python-xdg into multiple libraries such as python-mime and python-desktop file and prepare them to be used in helper binaries to handle some of the more complex tasks currently done in shell.
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almost 4 years ago by simotek | Reply
Yeah i've spoken with the main author of https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg/ and we decided the best way forward was to work toward a v2 of the library that splits it up better, into things like mime, desktop etc.
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almost 4 years ago by bmwiedemann | Reply
Be sure to keep the startup time small. E.g.
time ruby --disable-gems -e 'puts "hello"'
and
time python3 -S -c 'print("hello")'
are still a factor of 3-4 slower than the equivalent in bash or perl.
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