Re: sh -> pl

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 welcome. I know people are
> >> working toward a cmake or other more cross-platform toolchain. 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 in there.
> >
> > Give us some examples.
>
> 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.

This does remind me of the "Useless Use of Cat Award" from
comp.unix.shell:

http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html

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