Re: Experimental patch: generating BKI revisited

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> I had a look at this some time ago and I must admit that I find it
>> pretty interesting.  The technology choices make it
>> obviously impossible to merge -- not only the particular Perl modules
>> used, but the mere fact that Perl is used (and that such a recent
>> version is required).  But you're already aware of all this so I'm not
>> going to say more.
>
> Really?  Perl is a show-stopper?  That seems harsh.  Perl is pretty
> ubiquitous - in fact, given that we now support Windows, arguably more
> so than awk.

Building in VC++ on Windows already requires Perl. And if you're
building in mingw, you've probably already got it, or can get it
pretty easily.

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