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[SirVer <SirVer@xxxxxx>]

> How would that be easier in Python or C++?

Let's leave c++ out of the picture for now as we are scripting mostly in Python in Widelands. Bash is just a stupid language with many pitfalls: just two quick ones that have bitten me are not setting pipefail [1] and not calling functions correctly. 

Also, bash is terrible about code reuse: figuring out if we are in the project root could be pulled out in reused in our python scripts, in bash we have to write it ever again. Python will also throw runtime errors on everything - guaranteeing that a script exits. Adding flags to a script is easier in python and the interaction with other programs is more explicit through the subprocess module than in bash. 

Basically Python is less error-prone and easier to extend. But I am not asking you to redo the script, just in the future default to using python instead bash - basically there is never a reason to write bash. 

[1] https://sipb.mit.edu/doc/safe-shell/

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