On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:31:20 +0000, Adrian Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all :) > > Do any of you know why Perl was chosen for LFS instead of either Python > or Ruby?
Only because some other packages, most notably Glibc, have a build dependency on it. I personally have never written any Perl code, and try not to read it if at all possible (it hurts my eyes!). Python's my weapon of choice these days, if my needs go beyond a trivial-ish shell script. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
