On Wednesday 08 March 2006 12:13, William A. Hoffman wrote: > As long as we are on the topic of external tools. > I noticed that perl is called during the build process in > several spots. I know there is perl for windows, but > it seems a bit much to require its installation for a build. > Perhaps these scripts should be converted to something more > portable.
More portable like... ? perl is probably more portable than sh, grep, etc. if we're talking about Windows. And make and friends don't exactly support every feature needed out of a buildsystem, which is why they support calling external programs. ;) It would perhaps be possible to port things that don't really need perl on a case-by-case basis if they need to be on Windows and our normal UNIX-y platforms, but I would hope it's only using perl if it needs to already. Regards, - Michael Pyne
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