Hi, > I don't like Perl really, but there's a chicken-and-egg problem between > detecting Python and using it to print the configure help script. For > configure-time tasks, Perl has the advantage that "#! /usr/bin/env perl" > just works.
Assuming perl is actually installed, the world seems to shift to python. On a minimal fedora install python is present but perl is not ... On the other hand git depends on perl, so it is probably pretty hard to find a developer workstation without perl installed, so maybe that doesn't matter much for the time being. take care, Gerd
