On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Alvaro Herrera > <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: >> I had a look at this some time ago and I must admit that I find it >> pretty interesting. The technology choices make it >> obviously impossible to merge -- not only the particular Perl modules >> used, but the mere fact that Perl is used (and that such a recent >> version is required). But you're already aware of all this so I'm not >> going to say more. > > Really? Perl is a show-stopper? That seems harsh. Perl is pretty > ubiquitous - in fact, given that we now support Windows, arguably more > so than awk.
Building in VC++ on Windows already requires Perl. And if you're building in mingw, you've probably already got it, or can get it pretty easily. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
