Re: Remove MSVC scripts from the tree

On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 09:41:19AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I don't think we should rely on sed being there on Windows. Maybe it's true
> now on the handful of buildfarm/CI machines and early adopters, but do we
> have any indication that that is systematic or just an accident?

Or both? When doing builds based on MinGW in the past I vaguely
recall getting annoyed that I needed to look for sed as one thing, so
your suggestion could simplify the experience a bit.

> Since we definitely require Perl now, we could just as well use the Perl
> script and avoid this issue.
>
> Attached is a Perl version of the sed script, converted by hand (so not the
> super-verbose s2p thing). It's basically just the sed script with
> semicolons added and the backslashes in the regular expressions moved
> around. I think we could use something like that for all platforms now.

Sounds like a good idea to me now that perl is a hard requirement.
+1.
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Michael