It's quite a pain to get perl on Windows, and adding another dependency makes building and distributing it more of a pain. You could maybe use perlcc to convert it to C, but a manual line-by-line conversion would be much better. Not difficult, just tedious.
On 9 December 2014 at 07:22, Lorenzo Marcantonio <[email protected] > wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 10:31:03AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > but at least that would be a start. I don't know that Perl code has any > > place in the KiCad source. > > Sorry to disappoint but for that kind of things perl is better suited > than python or C++ :P (or any other language I could think of) > > IMHO they only choose the right tool for the job (and perl is almost > universally available, from a time well before python ever existed) > > -- > Lorenzo Marcantonio > Logos Srl > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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