-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:07:09 +0100 Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > At some point, do we recognize that Perl is installed on every > > reasonable platform in existence or can be easily? I mean, we > > already require autoconf/make etc... What is adding Perl in > > practice? > > For one thing, a moving target. If we rely on "standard" Unix tools, > we have something fairly stable, if you are careful to read the > documentation to omit the occasional GNU extension. But with Perl, > you'd have a constant worry, which Perl versions to support and which > features that Perl version provides. > That is certainly reasonable and I have to admit, I don't follow Perl releases as much as I probably should but I can't remember the last time something I would do in "standard" perl wouldn't work for every version of perl since 5.6. I guess there is a consideration with the imminent, supposedly in our lifetime release of 6. Fair enough. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL political pundit | Mocker of Dolphins -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH4EwQATb/zqfZUUQRAueHAJ9+YH28v862MP1nBSk16XH5rMQKmQCgnWm1 UimwrFV0siRHC5JGp0o/xic= =WKN3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers