Re: 2.4: System Tools - I like them
- From: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
- To: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
- Cc: Murray Cumming Comneon com, GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, setup-tool-hackers lists ximian com, garnacho tuxerver net
- Subject: Re: 2.4: System Tools - I like them
- Date: 31 May 2003 16:41:26 +0100
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 16:34, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Murray Cumming Comneon com">
>
> > One thought:
> > 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
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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
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