Re: sh -> pl

David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> 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 in there.

This seems quite useless. Make scripts always rely on a shell
environment; you won't be buying any portability at all.

We might or might not want to switch to cmake, but I don't see any
value in half-measures.

regards, tom lane