#619: eliminate perl 5 dependency
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Reporter: allison | Type: roadmap
Status: new | Priority: trivial
Milestone: 3.0 | Component: configure
Version: | Severity: medium
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Comment(by jkeenan):
Replying to [comment:4 dukeleto]:
> I see value in getting rid of unnecessary dependencies, and I see the
value
> porting some tests that are currently in Perl 5 to PIR, but converting
our
> entire configure, build and test subsystems is a huge undertaking. What
is
> the real gain?
>
> I totally understand there are many bugs that are related to how we
figure out
> compile time flags from Perl's build flags, but that is orthogonal to
totally
> removing Perl 5 from the above subsystems.
Along the same lines, I'd like to quote a comment made by Andy Dougherty
three months back in TT #1044:
{{{
I have never understood TT #619, particularly the bit about replacing
reasonably portable Perl with a Unix shell script (and, presumably,
parallel sets of hand-maintained config files for any non-unix platforms,
such as Windows).
}}}
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