Axel Beckert wrote: > There are few more things pro and con a Perl version of > spawn-process-helper: > > + It would simplify the packaging. > > - It would add more dependencies. And although there's nearly no > Debian installation without Perl, I try to avoid dependencies on > additional scripting languages if I can. > > + I could debug and fix it more easier if it would be written in Perl > instead of C since I'm way more experienced in coding (and > debugging) Perl scripts. :-) > > - It would be slower and needs more memory. Not sure how much this > would be noticable. > > - AFAIK spawn-process-helper is a work around for some deficiency of > xulrunner -- which I expect to be fixed somewhen in the future. (I'm > an optimist. ;-) > + It would save of autobuilder time and Debian package space, by a tiny insignificant fraction.
Not really worth the effort IMHO. There are more important issues to worry about. - C code is simpler and probably more reliable, and maybe more secure, then relying on Perl and Perl libraries. I vote we keep the C code, unless it becomes too complicated to maintain. Seems unlikely. Brian May _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
