On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:03:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > I mean, it took us forever to require Perl 5.8. > > ... and we still make a point of not having a hard requirement for > that. If you don't want plperl, you can build from a tarball with > no perl at all. > > Given the project history, I can't see us turning a dependency we > just added this week into a hard requirement anytime soon. > > Now having said that, if you define "supported platform" to mean > "gets tested on the buildfarm", we do require Perl. And CVS, which > will soon get replaced by a requirement for Git. But I'm not going > to tell someone to get lost if they file a portability bug report > without having set up a buildfarm animal first.
I agree that "get lost" is not a reasonable first reaction, but as with platforms like AIX, "It would help us enormously for you to put up a buildfarm animal with your development environment on it" isn't. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
