Re: 2.4: System Tools - I like them

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

sön 2003-06-01 klockan 16.35 skrev Chipzz:
> > > > The backends are written in perl. Does this add any new or difficult
> > > > dependency to GNOME?
> > > 
> > > No, not really. They're written in perl because any *nix system worth its
> > > salt has perl already.
> > 
> > Any system on which you can compile GNOME has Perl.
> > 
> > $ head -n 1 /usr/bin/automake
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > $ head -n 1 /usr/bin/autoconf
> > #! /usr/bin/perl
> > $ head -n 1 /usr/bin/aclocal
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> None of which you need when compiling from tarballs which is what most
> people who will compile gnome theirselves will do.

intltool is all Perl.


Christian