Re: Reimplement mksplit.pl in C

2010-04-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was > > needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I > > can't find the reference anymore. > > I could only find approx one refer

Re: Reimplement mksplit.pl in C

2010-04-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 01:19:33AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I could only find approx one reference for this goal [1]. Ah, yes, that was it, thanks! Removing Perl from the essential set. While going to bed, I actually figured that was the reason why I wasn't finding perl in the depende