| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: sh -> pl |
| Date: | 2008-06-17 15:41:19 |
| Message-ID: | 22560.1213717279@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> 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 pointing to the Red Hat/Fedora
definition of the standard minimum build environment:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Exceptions
which I can assure you is no spur-of-the-moment list but was
very carefully chosen.
It has awk, and sed ... but not perl.
regards, tom lane
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