| From: | Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade project status |
| Date: | 2009-01-27 15:23:18 |
| Message-ID: | 7be3f35d0901270723h2a7ee0f1ra9527950bbd75ab0@mail.gmail.com |
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> I think it's fairly easy to install Perl on Windows actually. It
> doesn't sound too onerous a requirement if you want in-place upgrade;
> actually it looks a very reasonable one.
>
> Much more reasonable than Korn shell in any case (or any shell for that
> matter; I think anything is going to be more of a potentially painful
> platform dependency than Perl).
>
May I humbly recommend to rewrite in Python? That should be as
difficult / easy as PERL, AND there is a very robust py2exe
implementation, which allows to create a single .exe file which
contains everything.
Python is present on all Linux, Windows users are totally comfortable
with .exe files.
Harald
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