[illumos-Developer] webrev: 278 get rid zfs of python and pyzfs dependencies

Jason King jason.brian.king at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 07:09:12 PST 2010


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Edho P Arief <edhoprima at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Jason King <jason.abrian.king at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That is not what this is about.   There is no issue with maintaining
>> python bindings for zfs.  The issue is the actual /sbin/zfs command
>> itself requires python to operate fully.  In other words, you cannot
>> administer zfs completely without python.  This is about removing that
>> dependency.
>>
>
> I'm quite sure that the entire zfs stack in FreeBSD doesn't require
> python at all...

A number of subcommands invoke python to process them (IIRC zfs allow
is one of them).  FreeBSD must not be using those.  Regardless, this
is not about removing zfs bindings for python, but the dependency of
/sbin/zfs on python.



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