Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that
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Msg-id 15821.1205890130@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> What is adding Perl in practice?

> For one thing, a moving target.

Well, if we were that afraid of Perl version discrepancies, we shouldn't
be using it at all anywhere.  My point was just that we should not add
a new build tool dependency without a darn good reason; and something
you can easily do in sed doesn't qualify as a darn good reason.
        regards, tom lane


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