Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:14:32 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> > Perl is required for all MSVC builds, and for all builds from CVS
> > on any platform too, IIRC, so it's a fairly safe bet for any tool
> > you provide.
>
> The key phrase in that is "from CVS". Changing the sed script to Perl
> would introduce an unacceptable new dependency for builds from
> tarballs.

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?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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