Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Alvaro Herrera > <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: >> I think it's fairly easy to install Perl on Windows actually. It >> doesn't sound too onerous a requirement if you want in-place upgrade; >> actually it looks a very reasonable one.
> There are installers for it, but given that we made a point of porting > everything to C to avoid using any scripting languages on end-user > machines when we ported to Windows, it seems strange to relax that > 'policy' now for convenience. Indeed. We might put up with a perl script for awhile for the sake of development expediency, but the long-term expectation would have to be that someone would rewrite it in C. Given that, I wonder whether there's much point in a rewrite into Perl if we already have a working shell script. I suppose someone will say "but you'll get no testing from Windows users then..." regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers