Thorsten Behrens wrote:

> The story on win32 (and other, not-so-standard platforms I believe 
> you alluded to) is totally different, of course, but you won't fix
> that by prohibiting sed & awk - fixing the root cause here means
> performing cross-compilation for those platforms.
> 
> (you need to build/debug natively on those platforms? sure, but
> binning e.g. cygwin from the impressive list of ~14 build
> prerequisites
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Development/OpenOffice.org_Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows#software_requirements
> means getting rid of the _least problematic_ one - trivial to install,
> easy to update, free, built-in package management etc. - shouldn't we
> rather eliminate the real deal-breakers there first?)

You are jumping to conclusions. I didn't talk about a particular
dependency I wanted to avoid. I just wanted to point out that you seem
to underestimate the value of a less diverse build system. Most probably
because you don't have to maintain it. ;-)

Regards,
Mathias

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