Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian wrote: David Fetter wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Fetter wrote: Folks, I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none of which makes

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
David Fetter wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > David Fetter wrote: > >> Folks, > >> > >> I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous > >> dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none > >> of which makes Windows deve

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Jorgen Austvik wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Maybe, or maybe not. Do these platforms all have Perl? gypsy_moth Solaris 8 SUN Studio 8 spar If the moths don't have perl, we'll add it, no problem - don't let that stop anything. Of course they have perl - the buildfarm script is perl.

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread Jorgen Austvik
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Maybe, or maybe not. Do these platforms all have Perl? gypsy_moth Solaris 8 SUN Studio 8 spar If the moths don't have perl, we'll add it, no problem - don't let that stop anything. (On a separate note, we have had some problems internally with DNS, so some reporting

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread Kris Jurka
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Maybe, or maybe not. Do these platforms all have Perl? Of course. They're all buildfarm clients and the buildfarm script is perl. Kris Jurka -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscri

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Fetter wrote: >> This is 2008, and it's silly to pretend we need to support this >> "requirement" on systems where people are building Postgres. > Maybe, or maybe not. Do these platforms all have Perl? In this connection it might be worth pointi

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
David Fetter wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Fetter wrote: Folks, Well, it'll wind up with a build system that's documented a lot better than it is :) Is perl currently required to build from tarball? If not, you would be placing an additional b

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
David Fetter wrote: > That new version stamper calls out to sed, when perl is perfectly > capable of doing the same work itself and not spawning 30 shells in > the process. That's great. Please send a patch to improve the stamper. (Are you really worried about its performance, given that it run

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Fetter wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Fetter wrote: Folks, I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none of which makes Windows developers feel welc

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19:59AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > David Fetter wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous >> dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none >> of which makes Windows developers feel welcome. I know peopl

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Lane
David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My proposal is a lot more modest, and doesn't conflict with the larger > one. I'd like to move the above stuff to self-contained perl would > help to make things more cross-platform and clean up, no offense to > the fine authors, some pretty crufty code i

Re: [HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Fetter wrote: Folks, I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none of which makes Windows developers feel welcome. I know people are working toward a cmake or other more cross-platform toolchain. My p

[HACKERS] sh -> pl

2008-06-17 Thread David Fetter
Folks, I've noticed that a big hunk of our build system has gratuitous dependencies on some variety of shell and on tools like sed, none of which makes Windows developers feel welcome. I know people are working toward a cmake or other more cross-platform toolchain. My proposal is a lot more mod