> Me? I think, the rsync maintainers, or?
> I just added my 2 cents and would stick with .pl, it has proven to be
> stable :) (Yes, I'm a Perl user.)
Meant to direct that towards the rsync maintainers sorry. Are you
suggesting that something that works with all popular awk
implementations and
ping?
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This replaces the build dependency on perl with one on awk which is
already used throughout the build system and is much more ubiquitous
than perl
---
Makefile.in | 2 +-
mkproto.awk | 39 +++
mkproto.pl | 48
> I can't speak for rsync, but nowadays Perl isn't that rare, that a
> dependeny on it for build purpose would matter. IMHO.
It might not be rare, but it's certainly less universally available than
awk, which is preinstalled on pretty much every unix-like OS out there.
> There are many flavours
This replaces the build dependency on perl with one on awk which is
already used in the build system and is much more ubiquitous than perl
---
Makefile.in | 2 +-
mkproto.awk | 39 +++
mkproto.pl | 48
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