Re: sh -> pl - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: sh -> pl
Date
Msg-id 20275.1213712749@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to sh -> pl  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> My proposal is a lot more modest, and doesn't conflict with the larger
> one.  I'd like to move the above stuff to self-contained perl would
> help to make things more cross-platform and clean up, no offense to
> the fine authors, some pretty crufty code in there.

This seems quite useless.  Make scripts always rely on a shell
environment; you won't be buying any portability at all.

We might or might not want to switch to cmake, but I don't see any
value in half-measures.
        regards, tom lane


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