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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:07:09 +0100
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > At some point, do we recognize that Perl is installed on every
> > reasonable platform in existence or can be easily? I mean, we
> > already require autoconf/make etc... What is adding Perl in
> > practice?
>
> For one thing, a moving target. If we rely on "standard" Unix tools,
> we have something fairly stable, if you are careful to read the
> documentation to omit the occasional GNU extension. But with Perl,
> you'd have a constant worry, which Perl versions to support and which
> features that Perl version provides.
>
That is certainly reasonable and I have to admit, I don't follow Perl
releases as much as I probably should but I can't remember the last
time something I would do in "standard" perl wouldn't work for every
version of perl since 5.6. I guess there is a consideration with the
imminent, supposedly in our lifetime release of 6.
Fair enough.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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