A very good point, and I think that's where my gut feeling to avoid
embedded Perl for now comes from :-).
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:31:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
asr> The reason not to embed PERL in ctwm is that PERL is a
asr> non-trivial pain to compile, and it'd be a shame to saddle
asr> possible converts with "you must also be able to compile the PERL
asr> we inclde".
asr>
asr> "They already have PERL installed!", I hear you say.
asr>
asr> But they don't have perl version X.y.z, so we either have an
asr> unknown, but not trivial, set of integration problems, or we ship
asr> our "known good" version.
asr>
asr>
asr> Suggestion: If total rewrite of the config language is on the
asr> table, then let's not be restrained by a desire to make minimal
asr> changes. Let's argue about schools of config-language thought
asr> for a while, and then pick {guile|XML|whatever-gnome-does|...}
asr> and go whole hog.
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