On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Clifford Yapp <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Aug 7, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> > Hm, how's it problematic, Cliff, I've used Perl on Windows a fair > Er, sorry - I wasn't precise enough. Not problematic from a technical > perspective (that I know of) but it's a non-standard tool on Windows and > that can make it hard for people to get installed depending on their local
It would not be required for installation, just during a build. >> I don't think there's a problem using perl and other facilities when >> they're detected as long as we gracefully handle them not existing as well. > It sounds like the end result here would be "no Perl, no man pages." Ouch. But only for building, not for an end user. > Is this something that Tcl could handle? We already guarantee as part of > the BRL-CAD build that we have tclsh available, although I suppose it's not > in Perl's league for text processing... Not IMHO. > Again Tom, don't let me discourage you - the main reason I mentioned it was > your README document specifically called out Perl, and I would expect the > *final* iteration of the system to be in CMake or Tcl (Tcl is probably > ideal, if it can do it without too much ugly, since Tcl will almost > certainly survive much longer in BRL-CAD than the CMake logic will...) See my previous post--I'm happy to move to C++ if that will be acceptable. Best, -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
