On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Greg Stein wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: *.exports in distro bundle, use of Perl on Windows (was: Re: > make_export.awk) > To: "'Greg Stein'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:20:28 -0600 > > > From: Greg Stein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 2:37 PM > > > > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:28:07AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > It turns out there are no other Perl scripts, except for on > > > Windows. Regardless, OtherBill made a decision to not use awk or sed in > > > the step that modifies the default config file. I really think we need to > > > find out why he made that decision. If he chose not to use awk for a > > > reason, then we can not force him to use awk on Windows now. > > > > It was for simple expediency. All that the code does is a > > search/replace. > > > > We could use sed or awk or a teeny C program to do that. No > > need for Perl. > > Ack... there was -no- particular reason I used Perl, other than it was > most handy, and is already used for all .dsp (and my early attempts at bcc) > munging already. > > I'll change, no problem. The only advantage to Perl is that it is the one > free interpreted language many Windows web authors may have already installed. > Awk is definately a stretch - only diehards already have it installed. > > Bill
I guess I don't follow the logic there. How exactly would Windows developers run the configure script if they did not have Cygwin installed? Last I checked, perl did not read sh files, so you would need to have a version of /bin/sh on the Windows box to be able to run configure. I was not aware that there was a pure Win32 version of /bin/sh, I had always assumed people would be using Cygwin to run the ./configure script. Since Cygwin does not come with perl and it does come with gnu utils like sed and awk, we should use the utils and not perl. Does that sound reasonable to everyone? Mo DeJong Red Hat Inc
