On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:03:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> "Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes: >> > I mean, it took us forever to require Perl 5.8. >> >> ... and we still make a point of not having a hard requirement for >> that. If you don't want plperl, you can build from a tarball with >> no perl at all. >> >> Given the project history, I can't see us turning a dependency we >> just added this week into a hard requirement anytime soon. >> >> Now having said that, if you define "supported platform" to mean >> "gets tested on the buildfarm", we do require Perl. And CVS, which >> will soon get replaced by a requirement for Git. But I'm not going >> to tell someone to get lost if they file a portability bug report >> without having set up a buildfarm animal first. > > I agree that "get lost" is not a reasonable first reaction, but as > with platforms like AIX, "It would help us enormously for you to put > up a buildfarm animal with your development environment on it" isn't.
I feel like we do that already, as the occasion demands... so this isn't really a change in policy from that point of view. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
