On 1/13/21 5:09 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
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
I agree that it doesn't matter much right now, Though I don't always
have git installed in containers when I am doing builds. It will become
more common to encounter environments that are missing "obvious"
dependencies.
This was just an "FYI" experiment. :)
--js
