Joshua D. Drake wrote: > At some point, do we recognize that Perl is installed on every > reasonable platform in existence or can be easily? I mean, we already > require autoconf/make etc... What is adding Perl in practice?
For one thing, a moving target. If we rely on "standard" Unix tools, we have something fairly stable, if you are careful to read the documentation to omit the occasional GNU extension. But with Perl, you'd have a constant worry, which Perl versions to support and which features that Perl version provides. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
